快上來納命 Come Up And Yield Your Life
好妖怪，急縱身披掛了，使一般兵器，叫做月牙鏟，步出宮，分開水道，在水面上叫道：「是甚麼齊天大聖？快上來納命。」好妖怪，急纵身披挂了，使一般兵器，叫做月牙铲，步出宫，分开水道，在水面上叫道：「是甚么齐天大圣？快上来纳命。」
逐句解 Line by line
A fine fiend! He sprang up in haste and put on his armour, and took up a weapon of a kind called the crescent-moon spade. Out of the palace he stepped, opened a road through the water, and called from the surface, "Which of you is this Great Sage Equal to Heaven? Come up and yield your life."
好妖怪 is the storyteller's own exclamation — a fine fiend — thrown in ahead of the description proper; it belongs to the narrator and to no one in the scene. 披掛了 takes the perfective 了 le, and 分開 keeps 分 at fēn, to divide. 是甚麼 is one of the frames in which pypinyin supplies 甚 at shén correctly, the interrogative reading being fixed inside 甚麼. The closing unit 快上來納命。」 is a quote-closing tail of five graphs carrying no attribution of its own, so it is joined backwards here.
The storyteller's 好妖怪, a fine fiend, is the formula that announces a fighter worth describing. Nobody in the scene says it; it is the narrator leaning in. What follows is a checklist, and every item on it is one clause long — he arms, he takes a weapon, the weapon is named, he leaves the palace, he opens a road through the water, he calls up from the surface.
The challenge is a question followed by an order: which of you is this Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and come up and yield your life. He does not know which of the two figures on the bank is the one he wants. He will ask again in a moment, and he will still not know.