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且聽下回 To Be Continued
畢竟不知師徒們怎的維持，且聽下回分解。毕竟不知师徒们怎的维持，且听下回分解。
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畢竟不知師徒們怎的維持，且聽下回分解。
毕竟不知师徒们怎的维持，且听下回分解。
In the end, there is no knowing how the master and disciples fared — and for that, listen to the next chapter's telling.
畢竟不知師徒們怎的維持 = "in the end, it is not known how master and disciples got on." 且聽下回分解: 分 = fēn (in 分解 = "to explain, unfold") — the storyteller's closing formula.
The chapter closes on the standard storyteller's formula, 畢竟不知 … 且聽下回分解, suspending the narrative at the moment of the pilgrims' victory. The three immortals of Cart-Slow are dead and unmasked, the king humbled, and the travel-rescript secured — but the formula's promise of "how the master and disciples fared" gestures past the triumph to the aftermath, which the following chapter will supply as the company at last quits Cart-Slow and comes to the great river of Heaven-Reaching, the 通天河.