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第六十九回
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The Mind-Lord by Night Compounds the Medicines · The Sovereign at the Banquet Discourses on the Demon

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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

下回分解 To Be Continued

jìngzhīdàokōngzhōngshèngbàizěnmeqíndeyāoguàijiùdejīnshènggōngqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiějìngzhīdàokōngzhōngshèngbàizěnmeqíndeyāoguàijiùdejīnshènggōngqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě


逐句解 Line by line

jìngzhīdàokōngzhōngshèngbàizěnmeqíndeyāoguàijiùdejīnshènggōngqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě jìngzhīdàokōngzhōngshèngbàizěnmeqíndeyāoguàijiùdejīnshènggōngqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě

In the end there is no knowing how this going up into the air will end in victory or defeat, nor how the monster is to be caught and the Golden Sage Palace rescued. Listen to the explanation in the next chapter.

The storyteller's closing formula, naming the two things the next chapter owes: the monster and the queen. Both occurrences of take the light de of possibility. is kōng here, the open air, and 分解 is fēn jiě, to lay a matter out.


總評 Commentary

The storyteller's closing formula, and it names precisely what the next chapter owes: whether this flight into the air ends in victory or defeat, how the monster is to be caught, and how the Golden Sage Palace is to be rescued.

Two of those three were settled here. The king is cured, and the demon has been identified — by a pig, from first principles. What remains is the fight, and the chapter ends with Pilgrim already off the ground.