隱姓修行 She Hides Her Name And Practises
那羅剎接了扇子，念個咒語，捏做個杏葉兒，噙在口裡。拜謝了眾聖，隱姓修行，後來也得了正果，經藏中萬古流名。羅剎、土地俱感激謝恩，隨後相送。行者、八戒、沙僧保著三藏，遂此前進，真個是身體清涼，足下滋潤。那罗刹接了扇子，念个咒语，捏做个杏叶儿，噙在口里。拜谢了众圣，隐姓修行，后来也得了正果，经藏中万古流名。罗刹、土地俱感激谢恩，随后相送。行者、八戒、沙僧保着三藏，遂此前进，真个是身体清凉，足下滋润。
逐句解 Line by line
The Rākṣasī took the fan, said a spell over it, pinched it into an apricot leaf and held it in her mouth.
The apricot leaf is where the fan started: the Bull King reduced it to one in the chapter's opening passage, and the chapter ends with it back in the same shape and the same hiding place. 杏葉兒 takes the light curled er, and the word is one this edition names in that class.
She bowed her thanks to the holy company, hid her name and cultivated the Way; and afterwards she too attained the true fruit, and her name is handed down for ever in the Sūtra-piṭaka.
The novel does something here it does very rarely: it tells you what became of her. 經藏 takes 藏 at zàng, the Piṭaka; the character has now taken both readings in this chapter, cáng at 鬼神藏 in the first showcase and zàng at every 三藏. The sentence looks past the whole novel: she gets the 正果 she said she had not yet reached.
The Rākṣasī and the local god both gave thanks in gratitude, and saw them off from behind.
The two figures who see the pilgrims off are the two who live here: the demon who owns the fan and the earth-spirit who will collect the offerings. Everyone else has gone back to heaven. 相送 takes 相 at xiāng.
Pilgrim, Eight Rules and Sha Monk guarded Tripitaka and went forward from there, and truly their bodies were cool and the ground was moist beneath their feet.
身體清涼，足下滋潤 answers the 火氣蒸人，心焦口渴 that sent the disciples out in the first place: the chapter's opening complaint and its closing relief are built on the same four-and-four pattern. 保著 takes the zhe that keeps the guarding going, and 三藏 takes zàng.
She pinches the fan into an apricot leaf and puts it in her mouth, which is exactly where it was in the chapter's opening passage when the Bull King took it off the Great Sage's shoulder and shrank it. The object ends the chapter in the shape and the hiding place it began in.
And then the novel does something it does very rarely: it tells you what became of her. 隱姓修行，後來也得了正果 — she hid her name, practised, and in time attained the true fruit, the very thing she had said her kind never reached. Her name is recorded in the canon.
It is the only such notice in the chapter. The Bull King is led away on a rope and we hear no more of him; the Jade-Faced Princess was killed with a rake and unclothed to prove what she was. The Rākṣasī asks for the chance to reform, and the storyteller, in twenty-three characters, confirms she took it.
The last image is the two locals seeing the pilgrims off — the demon and the earth-spirit, the ones who live here — while the party goes forward cool and on moist ground, which answers the scorched heart and dry mouth that started the whole errand.