仗著威風 Trading On My Own Name
你道他怎麼除得眾怪？好大聖，想著：「那老魔不曾與我會面，就知我老孫的名頭，我且倚著我的這個名頭，仗著威風，說些大話，嚇他一嚇看。你道他怎么除得众怪？好大圣，想着：「那老魔不曾与我会面，就知我老孙的名头，我且倚着我的这个名头，仗着威风，说些大话，吓他一吓看。
逐句解 Line by line
And how do you suppose he got rid of that crowd of monsters?
The storyteller turning to the audience again — nine characters, the same device that introduced the impersonation.
Splendid Great Sage, he thought to himself: "That old demon has never met me face to face, and yet he knows Old Sun's name. Let me lean on this name of mine, then, and trade on the terror of it, and talk big, and give them a fright and see.
Three durative 著 in one speech — 想著, 倚著 and 仗著, thinking, leaning, relying, all held. 名頭 is a reputation, a name that goes before you, and 威風 is the awe a person carries. The plan is to use himself as a weapon without being himself.
The plan is the chapter's best joke turned inside out. Pilgrim has spent the afternoon impersonating a demon in order to hide from a demon army; he now proposes to frighten that army by talking about himself.
And the observation it rests on is sharp. The old demon has never met him and is afraid of him anyway — which means the name is doing work independently of the creature attached to it.
So the weapon is not the cudgel. It is the reputation, and Pilgrim intends to wield it while wearing somebody else's face, which is a strange and rather modern kind of warfare.