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下回分解 To Be Continued
畢竟不知此去到於空中,勝敗如何,怎麼擒得妖怪,救得金聖宮,且聽下回分解。毕竟不知此去到于空中,胜败如何,怎么擒得妖怪,救得金圣宫,且听下回分解。
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畢竟不知此去到於空中,勝敗如何,怎麼擒得妖怪,救得金聖宮,且聽下回分解。
毕竟不知此去到于空中,胜败如何,怎么擒得妖怪,救得金圣宫,且听下回分解。
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 得 take the light de of possibility. 空 is kōng here, the open air, and 分解 is fēn jiě, to lay a matter out.
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.