東海龍王 The Dragon King Of The Eastern Ocean
好大聖,步了罡訣,念聲咒語,早見那正東上一朵烏雲,漸近於頭頂上。叫道:「大聖,東海龍王敖廣來見。」行者道:「無事不敢捻煩,請你來助些無根水與國王下藥。」好大圣,步了罡诀,念声咒语,早见那正东上一朵乌云,渐近于头顶上。叫道:「大圣,东海龙王敖广来见。」行者道:「无事不敢捻烦,请你来助些无根水与国王下药。」
逐句解 Line by line
The excellent Great Sage paced out the Dipper steps and recited a spell, and at once a black cloud appeared in the due east and came gradually up overhead.
The whole summoning takes one sentence. 罡訣 is the ritual pacing of the Dipper — the officiant treads out the pattern of the constellation on the ground — and it is a standard Daoist procedure, not an invention. 那 is nà.
A voice called, "Great Sage — Ao Guang, Dragon King of the Eastern Ocean, comes to see you."
The cloud announces itself. Nobody has told him yet why he was called.
Pilgrim said, "I would not presume to trouble you without cause. I have asked you here to help with a little rootless water, to get a medicine down a king."
捻煩 is the everyday phrase for putting somebody to trouble. The request is beautifully courteous and is, in substance, a summons already obeyed.
The actual summoning takes one sentence: pace out the Dipper steps, recite a spell, and a black cloud comes up in the east. After all the elaborate positioning of the previous scene, the working of it is dispatched in a line.
Ao Guang announces himself from inside the cloud before anyone has told him why he was called, and Pilgrim frames the request as a courtesy — he would not presume to trouble him without cause. Both parties are being extremely polite about what is, underneath, a Dragon King ordered across the sky to help a monkey get a pill down.