Now the officer in the embroidered coat hauled the false Tang Monk out of the hostel, and with the Feathered Forest guards swarming round him on every side he went straight to the gate of the palace, where he said to the gate officer, "We have brought the Tang Monk here as ordered. Trouble yourself to send word in."

The chapter opens in the middle of a sentence, and that is deliberate: 卻說 is the storyteller's handover, roughly "picking up where we left off." The false Tang Monk is Wukong wearing his master's face. 羽林軍, the Feathered Forest guards, were a real imperial bodyguard from Han times onward — the name is meant to suggest arrows thick as a forest. 圍圍繞繞 doubles both halves of a word meaning "to ring around," and the doubling does the work an English writer would get from "swarming": not one ring of guards but a churn of them. 煩為 is polite officialese, fán wèi — the 為 is wèi, "on my behalf," not the copular wéi.

The gate officer hurried into court, reported it to the muddled king as he had been asked, and the king thereupon had him shown in.

昏君 is the standing epithet for this ruler and it is not flattering. 昏 is literally dusk or dimness, so a 昏君 is a ruler whose judgement has gone dark — the closest English is not "wicked king" but something like "benighted king." The narrative has used it of him ever since he swallowed the Royal Father-in-Law's prescription.