果然賢達 The Prince Proves Truly Worthy
那王子果然賢達，即傳旨召進。三藏至殿下施禮，王子即請上殿賜坐。三藏將關文獻上，王子看了，見有各國印信手押，也就欣然將寶印了，押了花字，收摺在案。那王子果然贤达，即传旨召进。三藏至殿下施礼，王子即请上殿赐坐。三藏将关文献上，王子看了，见有各国印信手押，也就欣然将宝印了，押了花字，收折在案。
逐句解 Line by line
The prince proved to be genuinely enlightened, and at once issued an order for him to be brought in.
The old man in the thicket said the prince was worthy, and the narrator now confirms it in four characters. 賢達 is worthy-and-penetrating, said of someone both virtuous and clear-sighted. 傳旨 is to issue a command from the seat of authority, and it is the first of the ruler-actions that this chapter attaches to the man rather than to any king above him.
Tripitaka came before the hall and made his obeisance, and the prince at once invited him up into the hall and granted him a seat.
殿下 is doing double duty in the chapter: literally below the hall, which is where Tripitaka stands to bow, and also Your Highness, which is what a prince is called — because you address him from below his hall rather than to his face. Being invited up the steps and given a seat is the exact gesture by which a ruler marks a visitor as an honoured equal rather than a petitioner.
Tripitaka presented the travel papers. The prince read them, saw the stamps and signatures of all the various countries, and cheerfully pressed on his own great stamp, signed his flourish, folded the papers and set them on the table.
The whole bureaucratic transaction in one sentence. 印信手押 are the stamps and hand-signatures of every kingdom the pilgrims have already passed, so the document is its own itinerary. 寶, the treasure, is the formal word for a ruler's stamp of office. 花字, the flower-character, is the ornamental personal cipher an official wrote instead of a plain signature — the ancestor of the modern signature flourish, and impossible to forge if done well.
This is the smoothest border crossing in the entire novel. In most kingdoms the papers become a crisis: they are stolen, or the ruler is an impostor, or a Daoist favourite objects. Here a man reads them, stamps them and puts them down.
The detail about the accumulated stamps is quietly moving. Tripitaka has been carrying the same sheet of paper for fourteen years and every court he has survived has left its mark on it. The document is a record of the journey in a way nothing else in his baggage is.
The prince's cheerfulness is the tell. He does not interrogate, delay, or demand a miracle first. He looks at a properly attested document and treats it as valid, which in this novel is nearly a miracle in itself.