The Monkey King has nine tricks to incarnate into a human form and become an immortal, which is in line with the sentence "Anyone who has nine tricks can become an immortal". On the way to the Monkey King to learn Buddhist scriptures, he met many goblins, and they all became immortals in the end, but they didn't have nine tricks, which didn't meet the meaning of "anyone who has nine tricks can become immortals". What the hell is going on here?
But a sentence from Taibai Venus tells us that "anyone who has nine tricks can become an immortal" actually has another meaning. At that time, when he persuaded the Jade Emperor to give the Monkey King an official position to save the Monkey King, he said that the Monkey King was no different from human beings, and he hoped that the Jade Emperor would compare the Monkey King with human beings. In other words, the phrase "anyone who has nine tricks can become an immortal" may refer to human beings.
In fact, this sentence has been running through the whole journey to the west and has become the standard for all living beings to cultivate immortality. The so-called "anyone who has nine tricks can become immortal" does not mean that all creatures between heaven and earth can become immortal as long as they have nine tricks. In fact, human beings are intelligent creatures, with their own thoughts and great abilities, and they can become immortals with nine tricks. So this statement still has great credibility in The Journey to the West.