In no long time they came to the borders of the Golden Helm Mountain.

到了: 了 is le. 不多時 is the narrative's standard way of skipping a journey; the somersault cloud has covered the distance to Vulture Peak and back inside two passages.

Devarāja Li saw them, led his company out to meet them, and set out the whole affair.

那李天王 points, so 那 is nà; 見了: 了 is le; 相迎: 相 is xiāng.

The arhats said: "No need for a long recital. Go quickly and call him out."

絮繁 is "long-winded, prolix." The arhats have their instructions and no interest at all in the back-story; they are the only party in this chapter in any hurry.

The Great Sage clenched his fists, came to the cave mouth and railed: "Bloated foul monster, come out quickly and settle which is above and which below with your Grandfather Sun!"

捻著: 著 is zhe, a grip held. 腯潑 — 腯 means fat and well-fed, said of an animal fattened for sacrifice, so even the abuse keeps the ox in view. 孫外公, "your Grandfather Sun", is Pilgrim's habitual promotion of himself into the senior generation, which is how Chinese insults are built.

The little imps went flying off again to report.

那小妖 points, so 那 is nà. This is the second of three such errands in the chapter, and the narrator does not vary the sentence by so much as a word.

The demon king said in a rage: "That thieving ape has fetched somebody else to make a riot here, and there is no knowing who."

猖獗 here works as a transitive — "to run riot against me." The demon's assumption is reasonable and wrong: this time the reinforcement is neither a general nor an element.

The little imps said: "There is no general with him at all — only the one of him."

The imps are counting the wrong thing. 更無甚將: 更 is gèng, 甚 is shén ("any at all"), 將 is jiàng, the rank. Eighteen arhats are standing by, and not one of them is a general.

The demon king said: "That rod of his I have already taken in. How is it he comes here again all alone? Can he be wanting a bout of fists?"

那根棒子 points, so 那 is nà, and 子 is the bare ending zi. 走拳 is "to go at it with fists", unarmed sparring — which is, as it happens, exactly what Pilgrim is about to do, having no cudgel left.

He took the treasure with him as usual, gripped his spear, told the little imps to shift the stones away, sprang out of the gate and railed: "Thieving ape! Time and again you have got no good of it. You ought to keep out of my way — how is it you come bawling here again?"

綽槍: 綽 is chāo, to snatch up or grip; the automatic tool gives chuò, so the reading is locked by hand. 搬開石塊: 石 is shí — these are the stones walled across the gate at the end of the last battle, now being shifted again. 吆喝: 喝 is hè, on the chapter-wide ruling for this character; modern dictionaries treat the compound as a single word yāohe, with the second syllable unstressed.

Pilgrim said: "This foul fiend knows nothing of what is good for him! If you want your Grandfather to stop coming, there is no way but to submit and yield, make your apologies, and send out my master and my fellow disciples — then I will let you off."

The terms offered are a formal surrender: submission, apology, restitution. 服了降: 降 is xiáng, to submit, not jiàng; both 了 are le.

The monster said: "Those three monks of yours have been washed clean already, and before long they will be butchered. Do you still not know when to stand and when to fall? Be off with you."

And the terms are refused, in one of the ugliest sentences in the chapter. Both 那 point and are nà. 識起倒: 倒 is dǎo in this pairing of rising and falling — "to know what's what" — not the dào of "on the contrary." The sentence-final 罷 is ba. And 洗淨, "washed clean", is what you do to meat before you cook it.