The Four Great Heavenly Kings withdrew their troops and broke off the battle, and each reported his merits: some had taken tigers and leopards, some had taken lions and elephants, some had taken wolves, vermin, foxes, and raccoon-dogs.

報功: to render an account of one's merits, the formal reckoning-up after a battle. 罷戰 takes 罷 at bà, to break off. Read the list of prizes carefully — every single capture in it is an animal.

But not a single monkey-spirit had been caught.

捉著 takes 著 at zháo, contact achieved: actually caught. Nine characters undo the thirty-three above them. The whole haul is worthless, because there is not one monkey in it.

At that time they pitched their camp anew, set up the great stockade, feasted the generals who had earned merit, gave their orders to the troops of the sky-net and earth-snare, and each, ringing bell and calling watchword, beleaguered the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, awaiting the great battle of the morrow.

賞𤛮 (shǎng láo) is to feast and reward the troops — the victory dinner. The second character, 𤛮, is rare enough that some fonts may not display it. Flip the page to simplified and it quietly becomes a different rare character again, 𤙯, which is what the conversion produces. 將 here is jiàng, the generals who earned the merit.

Every man had his orders, and at every post they kept strict guard. And this was the way of it:

The army settles in for the night, post by post. 一處處謹守 is a strict guard kept at every station, with 處 at chù, a place, twice over. Then 此正是 — and this was the way of it — hands the chapter over to its closing couplet.

The monster-monkey, making havoc, has shaken Heaven and Earth;

The chapter ends on a matched couplet, seven characters to the line. Two lines — by a wide margin the shortest of the chapter's six verse pieces, and the only one that states a position rather than describing anything.

they spread the net and stretch the snare, and watch by day and night.

看 is kān here, to keep watch over, not the kàn of looking at. The chapter uses that guard-duty reading exactly twice, and the two places frame the whole story: 看管蟠桃園, the charge the Great Sage was given, and this watch now being kept over him. He began by guarding and ends by being guarded. 佈網張羅 answers the 天羅地網 that has run through the chapter from the Jade Emperor's first order.

How he was dealt with after daybreak — listen to the telling in the next chapter.

且聽下回分解 is the storyteller's standing formula for stopping — listen to the telling in the next chapter — and it comes straight out of the marketplace, where breaking off at the interesting part was how you kept an audience. 畢竟, when all is said, poses the question the next chapter will open on. The Great Sage is undefeated and surrounded, which is exactly where the chapter wants to leave him. 處治 takes 處 at chǔ, to deal with or dispose of — not the chù of a place, which the chapter uses six times elsewhere.