不要假忙 No Need To Fuss
行者道：「你且起來，不要假忙。我且不打你，寄下在那裡。我問你，此間是甚地方？」行者道：「你且起来，不要假忙。我且不打你，寄下在那里。我问你，此间是甚地方？」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said, "Get up, get up. No need for all this fussing."
假忙 — putting on a show of being busy, fake bustle. He has just hauled the old man out of his shrine by force and now tells him not to make a performance of it.
"I will not beat you for now. I shall put it on account."
寄下在那裡 — leave it deposited over there. The metaphor is from bookkeeping: the beating is not cancelled, it is filed for later. Everything the local god feared about him is confirmed in ten characters.
"Now tell me: what place is this?"
甚 is shèn here, not the shén of the question word — 甚地方 is "what sort of place," with 甚 doing duty as an interrogative in its own right. 此間 takes jiān, marking a span rather than a gap.
The old god's fears turn out to be exactly right, and the joke lands in the second sentence. He is not going to be beaten. The beating is being held on account.
The bookkeeping metaphor is worth keeping because it tells you how Pilgrim thinks about violence: as a running tab with the universe, settled when convenient. He means it kindly. It is still the most alarming thing he could have said.