盡情打爛 Beaten To A Pulp
行者聞言，大怒道：「你既不還我師父，且看你妹妹的樣子。」好大聖，把叉兒棒幌一幌，復了一根鐵棒，雙手舉起，把七個蜘蛛精盡情打爛。行者闻言，大怒道：「你既不还我师父，且看你妹妹的样子。」好大圣，把叉儿棒幌一幌，复了一根铁棒，双手举起，把七个蜘蛛精尽情打烂。
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim heard that and blazed up. "Since you will not give me back my master, then look what becomes of your sisters."
The third 還 as huán in twenty lines. 且看…的樣子 — just look at the state of — is a threat delivered as an invitation, and it is chilling precisely because it is grammatically polite. He is telling the man to watch.
Splendid Great Sage! He shook the forked staff, and it was one iron cudgel again; he raised it in both hands and beat the seven spider spirits to a pulp.
復了 is restored, returned to its former state — the seventy-one forks collapse back into one cudgel with a shake. 盡情 means to the full, holding nothing back, and 打爛 is to beat until it bursts. The sentence gives four actions in thirty characters and does not slow down for any of them.
The trade fails and Pilgrim kills the hostages, and the book does not soften it by a single word. He announces what he is about to do, tells the Daoist to watch, and does it in one sentence. 盡情打爛 — beaten to bursting, holding nothing back.
This is one of the places where the novel's hero is genuinely hard to like, and it is not an accident. Pilgrim is not a knight; he is a force that was sealed under a mountain for five hundred years for good reason, and the pilgrimage is supposed to be his correction. The book keeps putting the uncorrected version on the page.
It is also, on the plot's terms, a mistake. The seven were his leverage. Killing them out of temper leaves him with nothing to trade, three men still poisoned inside, and an opponent who now has no reason at all to deal. The next thing that happens is a straight fight, and the chapter's title has already told us how that goes.