Li Sui'an, an ancient tabby cat demon that has existed since primordial chaos, once lent Dayu a molar stick which later became the legendary Golden Cudgel. After ten thousand years of deep slumber, he wakes up and heads to the Demon Affairs Bureau to apply for retirement, drawn by the monthly dried fish benefits.
Mistaken for a feeble newly-transformed demon, he faces constant obstacles. When he unleashes his millennia-old cultivation and reveals his true form, every demon in the bureau collapses in terror. Director Bai Shu recognizes him as a supreme primordial ancestor, kneels to beg forgiveness, and lavishes him with rare tributes from the dragon king, Kunlun sacred trees and underworld relics to curry favor.
When underworld envoys come to claim his soul, Li Sui'an recognizes the Yama King as a man he once threw into a river to sober up, and casually tears his name off the Book of Life and Death. A 5,000-year-old black flood dragon provokes him, only to have its arm disabled with a teacup lid; it then humb
