白骨現形 The Bones Revealed
那唐僧在馬上又諕得戰戰兢兢，口不能言。八戒在傍邊又笑道：「好行者，風發了，只行了半日路，倒打死三個人。」唐僧正要念咒，行者急到馬前叫道：「師父莫念，莫念，你且來看看他的模樣。」卻是一堆粉骷髏在那裡。那唐僧在马上又諕得战战兢兢，口不能言。八戒在傍边又笑道：「好行者，风发了，只行了半日路，倒打死三个人。」唐僧正要念咒，行者急到马前叫道：「师父莫念，莫念，你且来看看他的模样。」却是一堆粉骷髅在那里。
逐句解 Line by line
That Tang Monk, up on his horse, was again frightened into trembling, unable to get a word out.
那唐僧 (nà Táng sēng) "that Tang Monk," 那 (nà). 諕得戰戰兢兢 (xià de zhàn zhàn jīng jīng) "frightened into shaking," 諕 (xià) and the complement 得 (de). The elder's terror at the third "killing" — worse than before — is the ground on which Bajie's final slander and the dismissal will be built.
Eight Rules, standing by, laughed again: "A fine Pilgrim! He's gone raving mad — half a day on the road, and he's beaten three people to death!"
風發了 (fēng fā le) "gone mad, seized by a fit." 只行了半日路，倒打死三個人 "only travelled half a day, yet has struck three dead," 行 (xíng) (twice), 倒 (dào) the adverb "yet, on the contrary." Bajie's jeer — three killings in half a day — twists the knife, framing Wukong's deliverances as a killing spree.
Just as the Tang Monk was about to recite the spell, Pilgrim rushed to the front of the horse, calling: "Master, stop, stop! Just come and look at what she really is."
正要念咒 (zhèng yào niàn zhòu) "just about to recite the spell." 看看他的模樣 (kàn kan tā de mú yàng) "look at [her] true shape." Wukong, forestalling the fillet, offers the physical evidence one last time — the proof that ought to end the matter.
It was, in fact, a heap of powdery bones lying there.
一堆粉骷髏 (yī duī fěn kū lóu) "a pile of powdery skeleton-bones." 在那裡 (zài nà lǐ) "lying there," 那裡 (nà lǐ) deictic-definite (pointing at the spot), hence 那 (nà). This time the true death leaves no illusory corpse but the demon's real remains — a skeleton, the White-Bone Lady's actual form.
The third killing differs from the first two in a decisive way: because Wukong barred the Corpse-Liberation escape, the blow leaves not a false human corpse but the demon's true remains — 一堆粉骷髏, a heap of powdery bones. For the first time the physical evidence exactly matches Wukong's claim, and he seizes it, rushing to show the master before the spell can begin.
Yet the passage also shows why evidence will not save him. The elder is already 諕得戰戰兢兢, shaking with terror at a third apparent murder, and Bajie is at his ear again with the cruellest framing yet — three people beaten dead in half a day, the work of a madman. The bones are damning proof of the demon's nature, but they land on a mind primed by fear and malice to see only slaughter.
The heap of bones is the chapter's grim visual climax. The disguises are stripped away at last, the demon reduced to what she always was; but the revelation comes too late and to too frightened an audience. Whether the bones will be read as vindication or as one more horror is the question the next passages decide.