受封大聖 Enfeoffed Equal to Heaven
悟空大喜，懇留飲宴不肯，遂與金星縱著祥雲，到南天門外。那些天丁天將都拱手相迎。徑入靈霄殿下。金星拜奏道：「臣奉詔宣弼馬溫孫悟空已到。」玉帝道：「那孫悟空過來，今宣你做個齊天大聖，官品極矣，但切不可胡為。」這猴亦止朝上唱個喏，道聲「謝恩」。玉帝即命工幹官張、魯二班，在蟠桃園右首，起一座齊天大聖府，府內設個二司：一名安靜司，一名寧神司。司俱有仙吏，左右扶持。又差五斗星君送悟空去到任，外賜御酒二瓶，金花十朵，著他安心定志，再勿胡為。那猴王信受奉行，即日與五斗星君到府，打開酒瓶，同眾盡飲。送星官回轉本宮，他才遂心滿意，喜地歡天，在於天宮快樂，無掛無礙。正是：仙名永注長生籙，不墮輪迴萬古傳。畢竟不知向後如何，且聽下回分解。悟空大喜，恳留饮宴不肯，遂与金星纵著祥云，到南天门外。那些天丁天将都拱手相迎。径入灵霄殿下。金星拜奏道：「臣奉诏宣弼马温孙悟空已到。」玉帝道：「那孙悟空过来，今宣你做个齐天大圣，官品极矣，但切不可胡为。」这猴亦止朝上唱个喏，道声「谢恩」。玉帝即命工干官张、鲁二班，在蟠桃园右首，起一座齐天大圣府，府内设个二司：一名安静司，一名宁神司。司俱有仙吏，左右扶持。又差五斗星君送悟空去到任，外赐御酒二瓶，金花十朵，著他安心定志，再勿胡为。那猴王信受奉行，即日与五斗星君到府，打开酒瓶，同众尽饮。送星官回转本宫，他才遂心满意，喜地欢天，在于天宫快乐，无挂无碍。正是：仙名永注长生箓，不堕轮回万古传。毕竟不知向后如何，且听下回分解。
逐句解 Line by line
Wukong, greatly pleased, would not be kept for the feast he was pressed to stay for, but rode the auspicious clouds with the Star-Lord out beyond the Southern Gate.
不肯 takes bù; 縱著祥雲 takes 著 as durative zhe. Wukong, pleased, declines the celebration to go at once.
The heavenly troops and generals all raised clasped hands to welcome them.
天將 takes 將 as jiàng; the same gate-guards who barred and then fought him now “raise clasped hands” in welcome.
They went straight in below the Hall of Miraculous Mist.
The Star-Lord bowed and reported, “By command your servant has summoned the Bìmǎwēn, Sun Wukong, who has now arrived.”
The envoy's formal announcement of arrival.
The Jade Emperor said, “Come forward, Sun Wukong. Today We proclaim you a Great Sage Equal to Heaven — your rank is of the highest. But on no account misbehave.”
官品極矣 — “your rank is of the highest” — the grandeur granted in full, with the pointed warning 切不可胡為 (“on no account misbehave”). 那孫悟空 takes 那 as demonstrative nà; 不可 bù; 胡為 takes 為 as wéi.
The monkey merely made a salute up toward the throne and uttered a “We thank you for your grace.”
唱個喏 — to make a nuò (a voiced salutation); 喏 is nuò. Wukong's perfunctory bow (亦止, “merely”) registers how little the ceremony humbles him. 朝上 takes 朝 as cháo.
The Jade Emperor then ordered the works-officers, the two guilds of Zhang and Lu, to raise — to the right of the Peach Garden — an Equal-to-Heaven Great Sage Mansion, and within the mansion to set up two offices: one called the Office of Tranquility, one the Office of Calmed Spirit.
The empty title given physical form: a 齊天大聖府 beside the Peach Garden, staffed with two pointedly-named bureaus — 安靜司 (Office of Tranquility) and 寧神司 (Office of Calmed Spirit), whose very names declare their purpose, to keep him quiet. 工幹官 takes 幹 as gàn; 一座 yí, 一名 yì. The Peach Garden's nearness plants the seed of the next chapter's mischief.
Each office had its immortal clerks, attending left and right.
He further sent the Five-Dipper Star-Lords to escort Wukong to his post, and bestowed besides two bottles of imperial wine and ten golden flowers, charging him to settle his heart and steady his will, and misbehave no more.
五斗星君, the Five-Dipper Star-Lords; the gifts (wine, golden flowers) and the charge to 安心定志 (“settle the heart, steady the will”) continue the policy of pacification. 又差 takes 差 as chāi; 著他 is causative zhuó; 胡為 為 wéi.
The Monkey King received and obeyed it all, and that very day went to his mansion with the Five-Dipper Star-Lords, opened the wine-bottles, and drank his fill with the company.
信受奉行, “received and obeyed it all” — a phrase with a sūtra-like ring; 那猴王 takes 那 as nà.
He saw the Star-Lords back to their own palaces, and only then, his heart content and his wishes full, joyful as earth and glad as heaven, he took his ease in the Heavenly Palace, free of all cares and hindrances. Thus it is that:
遂心滿意 / 喜地歡天 / 無掛無礙 — the monkey perfectly content, believing he has won. 快樂 takes 樂 as lè. 正是 is the storyteller's formula introducing the closing couplet.
His immortal name is forever entered in the Register of Long Life,
長生籙, the Register of Long Life — 長 is cháng; the celestial roll of immortals. The couplet states the genuine prize beneath the empty title: his name is now fixed among the deathless.
no more to fall in the wheel of rebirth, passed down through all the ages.
不墮輪迴 — “no more to fall in the wheel of rebirth”; 不墮 takes bú before fourth-tone 墮; 傳 is chuán. The Buddhist note (escape from saṃsāra) sits beside the Daoist register — the syncretic idiom of the novel.
After all, there is no knowing what is to come hereafter; listen to the next chapter told.
畢竟不知向後如何，且聽下回分解 — the storyteller's invariable chapter-closing formula. 不知 takes bù.
The chapter ends exactly as its title (名注齊天意未寧) foretold: the name is entered, but the unrest is only paused. Wukong is invested as 齊天大聖 with every mark of honor — the highest rank, a mansion beside the Peach Garden, immortal clerks, imperial wine, golden flowers — and the elaborate generosity is the trap closing. The two offices established within his mansion give the game away in their very names: 安靜司 and 寧神司, the Office of Tranquility and the Office of Calmed Spirit. Heaven has not honored him; it has assigned him a gilded quiet.
The dramatic irony is complete and finely balanced. Wukong departs 遂心滿意, “heart content and wishes full,” taking his ease 無掛無礙, certain he has wrung recognition from Heaven by force of arms. He has in fact accepted precisely the hollow honor designed to neuter him, and the Emperor's parting words — 切不可胡為, “on no account misbehave” — hang over the contentment like a lit fuse. The siting of his mansion beside the 蟠桃園, the Peach Garden, is the storyteller's wink: the reader of the next chapter knows what an idle, unrefined Monkey King will do when left unsupervised next to the fruit of immortality.
The closing couplet lifts the scene out of comedy into something graver, and quietly states the chapter's real stakes. Beneath the empty title lies a genuine acquisition: 仙名永注長生籙，不墮輪迴萬古傳 — his name is now fixed in the Register of Long Life, beyond the wheel of rebirth. For the inner-alchemical reader this is the crux the whole 齊天 episode has been circling. The 心猿 has secured immortality — but immortality without cultivation, deathlessness in a heart still unrefined and unstilled, is exactly the dangerous condition the rest of the saga must resolve. An undisciplined power that now cannot die is not a triumph but a problem deferred; the empty title and the real register together define precisely the knot that only the long pilgrimage to come will finally untie. The chapter closes on a peace that everyone but Wukong understands to be provisional.