There is a Spirit Beast Pagoda in the Immortal Realm, and it is about to collapse. If the pagoda falls, the spirit beasts will lose the chance to be reincarnated and vanish from heaven and earth forever.
By the shore of Taihu Lake, a woman who can understand spirit beasts is found by a divine dog that has fled from the Immortal Realm. Xiao Man says, "Only if the spirit beasts willingly offer up their spirit souls can we hold up the pagoda." Xiao Yue asks it, "How many people have you found?" Xiao Man replies, "Seven spirit cats, and you."
Mian Hu fell from a cliff, an old scar on its neck so deep you can see the bone. Yuan Yuan huddles trembling in the reeds, the wound on its back festering. A small piece has been shaved off Pi Hu's ear tip. Xiao Bu Dian's tail is shorter by a section, and it will never grow back. And then there are Da Mi, Da Dou, and Yi Yi: seven spirit cats, each with its own past and its own wounds.
Seven spirit cats and one dog set off toward the collapsing Immortal Realm, accompanied by a person who can understand them. Ahead lie the demon realm's opportunists, the seven cats' endless arguments as none will yield to another, and the long days and nights of a dog and a human fighting with all their might to keep the cats together. They roam the Immortal Realm and battle across the demon realm, finally trading a body covered in wounds for a promise:
In the next life, I'll still be your cat.
The inexplicable scars on four cats in The Tale of the Spirit Cats of Taihu Lake, the old wounds that never healed, and the past they never speak of unprompted: this story is their answer.
