The Great King of the Southern Mountains urges three leopards at the northern mountain to feast on the Tang Priest’s flesh. He himself stays back and profits from it, without lifting a finger. At daybreak the pilgrim monks fall victim to their plot of “instigating the tiger to leave the mountain”. Even though Monkey kills the three leopard spirits, he loses track of his master.
南山大王夜間唆使北山另三隻金錢豹吃唐僧肉，自家坐收漁人之利。天剛亮，取經僧中了調虎離山計，雖然打死三個豹妖，卻不見了師父。