特來請旨 Presented at the Jade Hall
丘洪濟、張道陵與葛、許四真人引至靈霄殿下，啟奏道：「萬歲，有孫悟空路至天竺國鳳仙郡，欲與求雨，特來請旨。」丘洪济、张道陵与葛、许四真人引至灵霄殿下，启奏道：「万岁，有孙悟空路至天竺国凤仙郡，欲与求雨，特来请旨。」
逐句解 Line by line
Qiu Hongji, Zhang Daoling and the Perfected Men Ge and Xu, four in all, led him to the foot of the Hall of Divine Mists and made their report: "Your Majesty, Sun Wukong has come by way of Fengxian Prefecture in the country of India. He wishes to pray for rain there, and has come specially to request an edict."
張道陵 is Zhang Daoling, a real second-century figure and the founder of the earliest organised Daoist church, promoted here to a post in heaven — which is how this novel habitually treats historical religious teachers. 真人, Perfected Man, is a Daoist rank rather than a compliment. 萬歲, ten thousand years, is the form of address reserved for an emperor and nobody else.
Four named officials escort one monkey down a hall and file a verbal report on his behalf. The novel gives all four names, and two of them belonged to men who actually lived.
The scene is staged exactly like a court audience in the Ming world the book was written in: the petitioner does not address the throne directly; officers announce him and summarise his business. Heaven runs on the same protocol as the Forbidden City, and the joke is that nobody in the novel finds this remarkable.