Little Cat

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Little Cat serves as Yiyuan Sect's spiritual beast and mountain guardian. He is introduced watching butterflies beside a stream near Li Feng's quarters; despite his immense and frightening appearance, he proves docile toward the sect's new disciple and is assigned to keep him company while Xiao Longzi and Xie Yuezi enter seclusion 4.

After Li Feng joins Yiyuan Sect, Little Cat becomes his closest animal companion. He shares spiritual herbs and thirteen Vermilion Fruits with Li Feng, but he also recognizes that restricted plants and sealed alchemy grounds are dangerous or inaccessible 5 6. Zhao Yue'er later orders him to supervise Li Feng's daily water-carrying and wood-chopping, punishing the tiger with a Mount Tai Talisman when he is lazy 8.

Little Cat repeatedly assists Li Feng beyond Qingyun Flat: he protects him from hostile beasts, catches food, accompanies him during the theft at Mount Hua Sword Sect, and leads Li Feng and Zhao Yue'er to a concealed cavern rich in Stone Stalactites and gems 10 16 20 22.

Appearance

Little Cat is an enormous tiger with fiery eyes and a white forehead. On all fours, he initially stands taller than Li Feng and measures over thirty feet from head to tail; his tail alone is about ten feet long 4.

• Golden light projects from his eyes, becoming markedly longer after he consumes Vermilion Fruits 4 5.
• His body weighs several thousand jin by the time Xie Yuezi throws him away during an attempted extortion 13.
• He later becomes noticeably fat from overeating cooked meat, with Li Feng sensing that he has gained more than fifty jin 11.
• He can transform into a miniature tiger roughly one foot long to pass through narrow crevices 22.

Personality

Little Cat is lazy, gluttonous, and proud of both his strength and appearance. He frequently sleeps, dreams of meat and tigresses, and eagerly follows Li Feng whenever roasted food or stolen provisions are promised 8 10 16. He considers himself a tiger of standing and resents being treated as a household pet by Yiyuan Sect's elders 13 17.

Though he cannot speak human language, he understands it and communicates through roars, gestures, nods, and expressive behavior. He is cautious around forbidden restrictions and stronger cultivators, fleeing when Li Feng cuts Candle Dragon Grass and immediately submitting when Zhao Yue'er disciplines him 5 6 7.

Abilities & Skills

Tiger Spirit Physiology

Little Cat greatly surpasses ordinary mountain predators in size, strength, and intimidation.

• Drove away a White Scaled Python with two roars, allowing Li Feng to take Vermilion Fruits 5.
• Can seize and pin an ape king with one paw and his body weight 10.
• Ordinary tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, and even black bears flee from him; he can kill a black bear with a single paw 10.
• Pulverized a huge boulder with one strike while displaying his strength to a group of ordinary tigers 20.

Xuan Gong Transformation

As a tiger spirit, Little Cat knows basic transformation techniques.

• Shrinks to a foot-long form to navigate a narrow rock passage 22.
• Returns to his full size after passing through the crevice 22.

Cultivation and Spiritual Perception

Little Cat practices cultivation by curling up and meditating. His beastly instincts also alert him to dangerous disturbances before their cause is known 24 26.

• Circulated the energy of Vermilion Fruits, increasing the visible golden radiance of his eyes 5.
• Is stated to have improved more quickly than Gu Lingzi over the preceding ten years 7.
• Detected that something was wrong when the Lesser Celestial Realm began to tremble 26.

Relationships

• Li Feng — Companion, food-sharing partner, and frequent accomplice. Little Cat protects Li Feng, helps with his theft at Mount Hua Sword Sect, and is repeatedly threatened with fur-plucking or worse by him 4 10 16 24.
• Zhao Yue'er — Has known Little Cat since her childhood, when he carried her around the mountains. She commands and punishes him, but trusts him to supervise Li Feng and accompany her into danger 8 20 26.
• Xie Yuezi — Senior Yiyuan Sect disciple who initially assigns Little Cat to accompany Li Feng. He later reprimands Little Cat for learning to extort gifts and throws him away by the scruff 4 13.
• Yiyuan Sect — Little Cat is the sect's mountain guardian and ordinarily would have defended its spiritual herbs from anyone not recognized as a sect member 5.

Trivia

• Little Cat is called “Little Cat” despite being large enough to terrify Li Feng on their first meeting 4.
• He likes cooked meat after spending three years secretly eating it with Li Feng 10.
• Zhao Yue'er threatens to pluck every hair from his tail if he deceives her 20.