“Zhu Wuneng: you were once the water-god of the River of Heaven, Marshal of the Heavenly Reeds. Because you got drunk at the Peach Banquet and made sport with a fairy maid, I demoted you to be born below, with a body like a beast's.”

⚠ 天蓬元帥 — Marshal of the Heavenly Reeds, a real Daoist title for a commander of the celestial armies. Pigsy outranked most of the gods in this room. ⚠ 身如畜類 — a body like an animal's. The Buddha says it to his face in front of the assembly, and the second character is read chù, livestock kept, not xù, to rear them. 為汝…酗酒 — the second character here is wèi, because of, unlike the four investiture verbs around it.

“Happily you remembered to cherish a human body. You worked wickedness at the Cloud Ladder Cave on Blessed Mound Mountain, but gladly came home to the great teaching and entered my order, and guarded the holy monk on the road — though you still had a stubborn heart, and your appetite for women was not put out.”

⚠ 卻又有頑心，色情未泯 — but he still had a stubborn heart, and his lust was not extinguished. The Buddha puts the failings in the citation. Nobody else's appointment carries a criticism. 記愛人身 — remembered to cherish a human body, meaning he wanted to be a person again and it counted in his favour. So Pigsy's reference is honest and mixed, which is exactly what his master's was in the throne hall: strong at carrying the load.

“Because you earned merit carrying the load, I promote your office to right fruit: you shall be the Cleanser of the Altars.”

⚠ 挑擔有功 — merit earned at carrying the pole-load. Word for word what the Tang monk told the emperor two blocks ago. Everybody in this book praises Pigsy for the same one thing. ⚠ And look at what he is not given. The others are made 佛, buddhas, and Sha Monk an arhat. Pigsy is made a 使者 — an envoy, a functionary. The verb changes too: the others are promoted to great office, and Pigsy is simply made one. 淨壇使者, Cleanser of the Altars. His job is to eat the leftovers off the offering tables.