He asked again, "And the magic fungus — how was that stolen?"

的 holds de by the invariant ruling. The unit carries its own attribution — a bare 又問, without a named speaker — and closes its own quotation, so it stands alone however short.

The dragon dame said, "That was my young daughter, the Myriad Sage princess, who went in secret up before the Hall of Divine Mists in the Great Canopy Heaven and stole the Queen Mother's nine-leaved magic fungus.

娘娘 is set by the registered kinship reading, with a neutral second syllable — the third such pair in the chapter after 爺爺 and 哥哥. 大羅天 and 靈霄殿 are the highest heaven of the Daoist scheme and the Jade Emperor's own hall, so the theft was committed at the top of the world.

The śarīra, getting the immortal breath of this plant to keep it warm, would not decay in a thousand years and would give off light for ten thousand.

載 is zǎi, a year, where pypinyin gives the zài of carrying. 溫養著 takes the durative 著 zhe, and 得 is dé, the full verb — the relic obtains the plant's breath. 不 takes bú before the falling 壞 huài.

Sweep it over the ground or over a field, and at once there are ten thousand shafts of rosy light and a thousand strands of auspicious vapour.

中 at 田中 is zhōng. 掃一掃 is the reduplicated V一V pattern that gives an action a light, brief quality, and its 一 takes yì before the dipping 掃 sǎo — the same shape as 按一按 and 理一理 early in the chapter.

Now you have taken it away, and brought it about that my husband is dead and my sons cut off, my son-in-law lost and my daughter gone. A thousand times I beg you, spare my life."

弄得 takes 得 at de, the linking reading. 子 at 子絕 is zǐ, a standalone noun inside a four-graph figure and not a suffix. 喪 is sàng here, to be lost — and the chapter's other 喪, at 停喪掛孝, is the funeral sāng; neither is guarded. 罷 is the particle ba, not the verb.