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雷電俱息 Thunder and Lightning Stilled
行者道：「既如此，且都住了，同候老孫行事。」果然雷也不鳴，電也不灼。行者道：「既如此，且都住了，同候老孙行事。」果然雷也不鸣，电也不灼。
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行者道：「既如此，且都住了，同候老孫行事。」
行者道：「既如此，且都住了，同候老孙行事。」
Pilgrim said, “If that is so, then all of you hold off, and wait together while old Sun does the business.”
且都住了: 都 = dōu, all of you. 同候 "wait together." 行事: 行 = xíng. He is not cancelling the Jade Emperor's decree, only telling the staff to stand about until he says otherwise, which is a far more insolent thing to do.
果然雷也不鳴，電也不灼。
果然雷也不鸣，电也不灼。
And sure enough the thunder did not peal, and the lightning did not flash.
雷也不鳴: the rising tone of 鳴 keeps 不 at bù. 灼 (zhuó) "to flash, to glare."
With the thunder gods held back too, every celestial office the rite depends on is now quietly under Wukong's hand. Wind, cloud, thunder, lightning -- all of them present, all of them waiting.
The stillness is the proof. Not a peal, not a flash, above an altar where a man is doing everything correctly. The question has stopped being whether the Daoist can make rain and become when the Great Sage will choose to.