奪刀遁走 The Fiend Seizes a Sword and Flees
那魔王在金鑾殿上聞得這一篇言語，諕得他心頭撞小鹿，面上起紅雲。急抽身就要走路，奈何手內無一兵器。轉回頭，只見一個鎮殿將軍，腰挎一口寶刀，被行者使了定身法，如痴如啞，立在那裡。他近前，奪了這寶刀，就駕雲頭望空而去。氣得沙和尚爆躁如雷，豬八戒高聲喊叫，埋怨行者是一個急猴子：「你就慢說些兒，卻不穩住他了？如今他駕雲逃走，卻往何處追尋？」行者笑道：「兄弟們且莫亂嚷。我等叫那太子下來拜父，嬪后出來拜夫，」卻又念個咒語，解了定身法，「教那多官甦醒回來拜君，方知是真實皇帝。教訴前情，才見分曉，我再去尋他。」好大聖，吩咐八戒、沙僧：「好生保護他君臣、父子、嬪后，與我師父。」只聽說聲去，就不見形影。那魔王在金銮殿上闻得这一篇言语，諕得他心头撞小鹿，面上起红云。急抽身就要走路，奈何手内无一兵器。转回头，只见一个镇殿将军，腰挎一口宝刀，被行者使了定身法，如痴如哑，立在那里。他近前，夺了这宝刀，就驾云头望空而去。气得沙和尚爆躁如雷，猪八戒高声喊叫，埋怨行者是一个急猴子：「你就慢说些儿，却不稳住他了？如今他驾云逃走，却往何处追寻？」行者笑道：「兄弟们且莫乱嚷。我等叫那太子下来拜父，嫔后出来拜夫，」却又念个咒语，解了定身法，「教那多官苏醒回来拜君，方知是真实皇帝。教诉前情，才见分晓，我再去寻他。」好大圣，吩咐八戒、沙僧：「好生保护他君臣、父子、嫔后，与我师父。」只听说声去，就不见形影。
逐句解 Line by line
That demon-king, up on the golden-belled hall, hearing this whole speech, was so frightened that his heart pounded like a startled deer and red clouds rose in his face.
Pointing 那魔王: 那 = nà. 聞得: 得 = de; 諕得: 諕 = xià, hinging 得 = de. 心頭撞小鹿 is a heart with a fawn bucking about in it — still the ordinary Chinese image for a pulse gone wild, whether from terror or from love. Here it is terror, and 面上起紅雲 puts the blush on top of it.
In haste he made to slip away, but had no weapon in his hands.
急抽身就要走路, hurriedly made to bolt. 手內無一兵器, not a weapon in his hands — because he came to this hall as a king, not a fighter, and kings do not carry their own steel.
Turning his head, he saw a hall-guarding general, a precious sword slung at his waist, held fast by Pilgrim's body-fixing spell, dull as an idiot, mute as a stone, standing right there.
鎮殿將軍: 將 = jiāng, general. 立在那裡: 那 = nà, "there." 轉回頭: 轉 = zhuǎn. Wukong's own freezing spell has left him a rack of unattended weapons, which is the trouble with freezing a room.
He stepped up, snatched away this precious sword, and mounting a cloud-head shot up into the void.
奪了這寶刀, snatched the sword. 駕雲頭望空而去, rode a cloud-head into the sky.
It so angered Sha the monk that he raged like thunder, and Zhu Eight Rules cried out at the top of his voice, blaming Pilgrim for being a hasty ape: "If you'd only spoken more slowly, wouldn't you have held him fast?
氣得: hinging 得 = de. 急猴子: rounding-off 子 = zi; 些兒: 兒 = er. 埋怨 mán yuàn is to grumble at somebody — note 埋 here is mán, not the mái of "to bury." 急猴子, "hasty monkey," is Bajie blaming the one member of the party who planned any of this.
Now he's fled on a cloud — where are we to chase and find him?"
何處追尋: 處 = chù, where.
Pilgrim laughed: "Brothers, don't raise a clamour.
且莫亂嚷, don't make a wild uproar. Wukong is the only calm person on the floor.
Let's have that crown prince come down to bow to his father, and the consorts come out to bow to their husband," — then he chanted a spell again and released the body-fixing charm — "and have those many officers wake and return to bow to their king, so all may know he is the true emperor.
Pointing 那太子 and 那多官: 那 = nà; 太子 子 = zǐ. 教那多官: 教 = jiào. The chase can wait: first the son must bow to his father, and the consorts to their husband, in front of witnesses. Wukong is staging the legal proof of identity before he leaves the room.
Have them tell the whole prior tale, and only then will the truth come clear — and I'll go after him again."
教訴前情: 教 = jiào. 見分曉: 分 = fēn — for the thing to come clear.
The fine Great Sage charged Eight Rules and Sha Monk: "Guard them well — sovereign and subject, father and son, and the consorts, together with my master."
父子: 子 = zǐ, the full "son." 好生保護, take good care to protect them. He leaves the two heavy fighters guarding a family reunion, and goes after the fiend alone.
At the mere word that he was off, he vanished, form and shadow gone.
只聽說聲去，就不見形影 — at the word "gone," not a trace of him left. The sentence is as fast as the departure it describes.
The deposition breaks the deadlock. Unmasked to his face, the fiend panics — his heart bucking like a fawn, red rising in his cheeks — and, weaponless, snatches a sword from a general still frozen in Wukong's spell and bolts into the sky. The disciples' reaction is entirely in character: Sha Monk rages, and Bajie shrills recriminations at Wukong for being a hasty ape who scared the quarry off before it could be pinned. The blame is unfair, since Wukong engineered the entire confrontation, but it is exactly the grumbling the reader expects from this party.
Wukong's calm reply turns the escape into stagecraft. Before giving chase he sets the recognition-scene going: he releases the frozen court and arranges for the crown prince to bow to his father, the consorts to their husband and the officials to their true king, so that everyone present sees the identification made — then posts Bajie and Sha Monk to guard the restored family. The passage does double work. It launches the sky-chase that fills the rest of the chapter, and it quietly completes the political half of the restoration on the ground, leaving only the fiend himself to be run down.