Lord Lao said: "You aren't on your road — so what are you doing, sneaking into my palace?"

潛入吾宮 is to steal into my palace. 怎的 is "what for, to what end."

Pilgrim said: "Since we parted, west along our way we came on a certain country, named Wūjī.

西遇一方, "westward we met with a region." 烏雞國 is the Wūjī Kingdom — the name means "black cockerel."

Its king had been done to death by a fiend disguised as a Daoist priest, who summoned wind and rain and secretly destroyed him; the fiend then falsely took the king's own shape and now sits upon the golden-belled throne.

Two 那 point here (那國王, 那妖): nà. 相貌: 相 = xiàng, "features, likeness." 金鑾殿 is the throne-hall. And note 呼風喚雨, "summoning wind and calling rain" — still the ordinary Chinese for somebody who can make things happen at will, though it now describes boardrooms rather than weather magic. Here it is meant literally, and it is the trick that got the fiend his throne.

My master was sitting by night over the scriptures in the Precious-Grove Monastery when that king's ghost came to do him homage, earnestly begging old Sun to subdue the fiend for him and set right the false from the true.

Pointing 那國王: 那 = nà. 參拜: 參 = cān, to pay court to. 降妖: 降 = xiáng. 邪正: 邪 = xié — the crooked and the upright, the chapter's governing pair, named here for the first time as the thing Wukong is asked to sort out.

Just so, old Sun, thinking he had no solid proof, went with my brother Eight Rules by night into the garden, broke into the flower-garden, and searched out the place of burial — a single well of eight-cornered coloured glaze.

園中: 中 = zhōng. 尋著: 著 here is zháo, marking that the search succeeded — found. 埋藏: 藏 = cáng, "to bury, to hide" — the same character read zàng in 三藏. 琉璃井 is a well lined with glazed tile.

We fished up his corpse, and its features were unaltered.

撈上 is to fish up. 容顏不改, "the countenance unchanged" — three years down a well and the body has not decayed, which is the first hint that this death was never quite ordinary.

Brought back to the monastery and shown to my master, he was moved to pity and charged old Sun to heal and save him — forbidding me to go down to the shades to seek out the soul, and bidding me cure him only in the world of the living.

寺中: 中 = zhōng. 著老孫醫救: 著 = zhuó, having somebody do a thing. 只教: 教 = jiào, again "to make, to have." 陽世間: 間 = jiān.

Thinking I had nowhere to work the return to life, I came expressly to call on you.

想著: 著 = zhe, the action going on. 參謁: 參 = cān, to present oneself, to call on.

My one hope is that the Daoist Patriarch will take pity and lend me a thousand pellets of the Nine-Cycle Soul-Reverting Elixir, to give to old Sun and rescue him."

還魂丹: 還 = huán. 借得: 得 = dé. 丸兒: rounding-off 兒 = er. A thousand pellets is a wildly excessive ask, and Wukong knows it — this is an opening bid.

Lord Lao said: "This monkey talks nonsense — 'a thousand pellets,' 'two thousand pellets' — as if they were rice to be eaten by the bowl?

甚麼: 甚 = shén. 當飯吃: 當 = dàng, to treat as — as if they were rice by the bowl. 猴子: rounding-off 子 = zi.

Where is there clay to be kneaded up like this, so easily?"

那裡 is rhetorical here, "where on earth": 那 = nǎ. 土塊捘的, "kneaded up out of lumps of earth." The god's two comparisons — rice, clay — are both about cheap bulk, which is the point.

"Pah!

咄 duō — a short bark of dismissal, closer to "Pah!" than to any word.

Off with you!

快去, "be off, and quickly."

There aren't any!"

沒有, "there are none"; 沒 = méi.

Pilgrim laughed: "A hundred or ten pellets would do just as well."

百十丸兒: rounding-off 兒 = er. 也罷: 罷 = ba. The haggle begins: from a thousand straight down to a hundred, without a blush.

Lord Lao said: "Those there aren't, either."

也沒有, "none of those either."

Pilgrim said: "Ten or so pellets would do."

十來丸, "ten-odd pellets." 也罷: 罷 = ba. A thousand, a hundred, ten — Wukong is working down a market-stall ladder, and Lord Lao refuses every rung.

Lord Lao said angrily: "This wretched ape is a real pest — none, none, out with you, out with you!"

纏帳 is to pester, to be a nuisance. 潑猴, "vile ape," is the god's standing name for him.

Pilgrim laughed: "Truly none, then; I'll go ask elsewhere."

別處: 處 = chù. Closing 罷 = ba. The surrender is theatre; watch what it produces.

Lord Lao barked: "Go, go, go!"

喝道 is to shout. The threefold 去 is the god physically shooing him out of the room.

The Great Sage swung round on his heel and made off toward the front.

拽轉步: 拽 = zhuài, to drag or swing round — not zhuāi. Wukong turns on his heel and walks, which is precisely the move he wanted to make.