The Heavenly King said, "At this rate, how is it to be brought to an end?"

結果 here is the verb — to bring a matter to its finish — not the noun "fruit" or "result" it usually is in modern Chinese. The Heavenly King asks the practical question and gets a principle for an answer.

Pilgrim said, "Reckon it however you all please; it is only what the ring cannot gather in that will serve to take him."

The proverb from the seventh passage, turned into a working method: find the thing the ring is not fitted to swallow. 圈子 ends in the light zi and 他了 on le; 套不去 gives bú. The two clauses run under one semicolon inside a single sentence.

The Heavenly King said, "As for what it cannot gather in — water and fire are the sharpest. As the common saying has it, 'water and fire are without feeling.'"

One proverb answers another. 一物降一物 said that *something* must be fitted to the ring; 水火無情 — water and fire are without feeling — proposes what. It is still the ordinary Chinese for an indifferent, unappeasable force, the equivalent of saying fire does not negotiate. 套不去 gives bú. The short quotation folds back onto the sentence that introduces it.

Pilgrim heard him and said, "What you say has reason in it. Sit here quietly while old Monkey takes another run up to Heaven."

說得有理 takes dé. 走走來 doubles the verb in the same offhand way as 查勘查勘 in the second passage — he is going up to Heaven for the second time and calls it a stroll.

Deng and Zhang, the two lords, said, "And what are you going for this time?"

做甚的 takes shén, "what," against the shèn of 甚喜 in this passage's last segment. The thunder lords have got short with him.

Pilgrim said, "Old Monkey on this trip need not memorialise the Jade Emperor. I shall only go in at the Southern Gate of Heaven and up to the Tong-hua Palace, and ask the Star Lord of Fire Virtue, Yinghuo, to come here and set a fire — to burn that creature a good burning, and perhaps burn the ring itself to ashes along with him, and so take the fiend.

熒惑 is the planet Mars, whose star lord governs fire — the plan being to answer a thing that swallows objects with something that is not an object. 彤華宮 takes huá; both instances of 那 are the pointing nà; 圈子 ends in the light zi; 不消 keeps bù and 一場 gives yì.

That way, first, I get the weapons back to return to you all when you go up to Heaven; and second, it may loose my master from his calamity."

He puts the borrowed weapons ahead of his own master in the order of business, which is either good manners or an accurate sense of who is owed what. 還汝等 takes huán, to give back, matching 還我師父 two passages ago. 之難 takes nàn, the noun for a calamity, against the nán meaning "hard" in 難爭 and 難縛. 解脫 takes jiě, and 一則 gives yì.

The prince was greatly pleased to hear it and said, "No need to hang back. Let the Great Sage go early and come back early. We shall only wait here with our hands folded."

拱候 is to wait with the hands clasped in salute — and the prince, disarmed a passage ago, has nothing else to do with his hands. 甚喜 takes shèn and 太子 takes zǐ; 不必 gives bú.