The Heavenly King contested with me and never won; Nezha faced me and could hardly hold the fight.

哪吒 is Nezha, and the first character reads né in this name, not the nǎ it takes on its own. He is the boy-general with the wind-fire wheels, and his father is the 天王 of the line before. This is the project's first appearance of either.

The rod struck the gods till they had nowhere to hide; a hundred thousand heavenly troops all fled and scattered.

藏 is cáng, to hide. And 十萬 is a hundred thousand rather than ten — Chinese counts in units of ten thousand, so the numbers in this book are routinely larger than an English reader expects.

The thunder generals in a body guarded the Divine Empyrean; I flew up and struck at the Hall of Perfect Brightness.

將 is jiàng here — a general, the noun — not the jiāng particle of the line before. The sealed chapters give jiàng at all six of their sites for this sense. 靈霄 and 通明殿 are the throne-hall of the Jade Emperor.

The court-holding heavenly envoys were all thrown into a rush; the immortal ministers guarding the throne were all thrown into confusion.

朝 is cháo, the imperial court — the same band as facing toward. The vocabulary here is entirely that of a real palace: envoys, ministers, an escort, a hall.

I raised the rod and overturned the Northern Dipper Palace; turned my head and shook open the Southern Pole Court.

斗 is dǒu, the Dipper. North and south, the two poles of the sky, both wrecked in one line — and the Southern Pole is the seat of the god of longevity.