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令牌風起 The Tablet Cracks, Wind Stirs
那底下兩三個道士拿過一個執符的像生、一道文書,亦點火焚之。那上面乒的一聲令牌響,只見那半空裡悠悠的風色飄來。那底下两三个道士拿过一个执符的像生、一道文书,亦点火焚之。那上面乒的一声令牌响,只见那半空里悠悠的风色飘来。
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那底下兩三個道士拿過一個執符的像生、一道文書,亦點火焚之。
那底下两三个道士拿过一个执符的像生、一道文书,亦点火焚之。
Below, two or three Daoists took up a talisman-bearing effigy and a document and likewise set fire to them.
Deictic 那底下: 那 = nà. 像生 “a lifelike effigy.” 亦點火焚之 “likewise lit and burned them.”
那上面乒的一聲令牌響,只見那半空裡悠悠的風色飄來。
那上面乒的一声令牌响,只见那半空里悠悠的风色飘来。
From above came the crack of the command-tablet, and there — in the mid-air — a breath of wind came drifting slowly on.
Deictic 那上面 / 那半空: 那 = nà (×2). 乒 (pīng) the crack of the struck tablet. 風色 “the stir of wind.”
The rite appears to work: the first stroke of the tablet is answered by a rising wind, exactly as the immortal foretold. The narrative lets the illusion of Daoist success stand for a beat — long enough for Bajie to panic in the next passage — before revealing, from Wukong's side, how the machinery is really to be worked.