羊力煠化 Ram-Power Fried Away
行者下來，與三藏、八戒、沙僧立在殿前，見那道士在滾油鍋裡打掙，爬不出來。滑了一跌，霎時間骨脫皮焦肉爛。行者下来，与三藏、八戒、沙僧立在殿前，见那道士在滚油锅里打挣，爬不出来。滑了一跌，霎时间骨脱皮焦肉烂。
逐句解 Line by line
The Pilgrim came down and stood with Tripitaka, Eight Rules, and Sha the Monk before the hall, and saw that Daoist thrashing in the seething oil-cauldron, unable to climb out.
All four pilgrims stand together at the front of the hall to watch, which the storyteller mentions so that the reader watches with them. 打掙 is to thrash and struggle; 爬不出來, unable to climb out. The oil is boiling again and the ram has nowhere to go. 那 = nà; 藏 = zàng.
He slipped and took a fall, and in an instant his bones parted, his skin scorched, his flesh melted away.
霎時間 — in the space of a blink (間 = jiān). Then 骨脫皮焦肉爛: bones loosed, skin charred, flesh gone to pulp. Three verbs, six characters, one clause. Compare the leisurely paragraph the storyteller spent on Wukong sorting his own entrails: the true adept gets a scene, the false one gets a sentence.
The third ordeal ends as the other two did, with the immortal destroyed by the trial he demanded. The cold dragon is gone, the oil is seething again, and Ram-Power — who was bathing so confidently a moment ago — thrashes, cannot climb out, slips, and is finished in a single clause: 骨脫皮焦肉爛, bones loosed, skin charred, flesh gone to pulp.
The brevity is deliberate. The storyteller gave Wukong a whole leisurely paragraph to sort his own entrails strand by strand; the false immortal gets six characters. With the ram fried away, all three animal-powers of Cart-Slow are dead — tiger, deer and ram — and the chapter's title stands fulfilled: 心猿顯聖滅諸邪, the mind-monkey has manifested his sainthood and destroyed the fiends. What is left is the reckoning.