Variations: Li-wildcat, Powercat
The Lili or Powercat can be found around Willow Mountain in China. It barks like a dog and looks like a pig with spurs on its feet. Its appearance foretells considerable earthwork construction in the district.
References
Mathieu, R. (1983) Étude sur la mythologie et l’ethnologie de la Chine ancienne. Collège de France, Paris.
Strassberg, R. E. (2002) A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas. University of California Press.
A Book of Creatures 
It barks like a dog, but its name is Power’CAT’!
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Another one of those weird phonetic things maybe?
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This monster’s name is “狸力”,The word “狸” means cat or fox, “力” means power.But it just a monster name in Mountains and Sea .when two words combine together.
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Aha, so another of those phonetic things like “Celestial Horse”. Thanks for the info, I cannot comment on this since I am not familiar with the language.
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Mountains and Sea is too far from now.It had finished in more than 2 thousand years ago.Almost all monsters’names from it just a pronunciation. By the way it is chicken feet in original book.The object on chicken fee is translated in spur.
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Sounds like a prophecy that you could make true. You see a Lili, you get everyone in the area to start digging.
Did it have chicken feet in the source material?
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Spurs on its legs, and its feet looked rather birdy in the original illustration
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It might even be a good idea to try to game the system by doing so and retroactively cancelling a project that means, say, everybody getting conscripted to tunnel through Willow Mountain.
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How much power would you say it has compared to a standard cat?
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At least three times as powerful
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But what does it taste like?
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Chicken
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Earthwork Construction?
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You know, digging ditches, making embankments… improving sewage infrastructure…
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Huh. So It just appears as is like: Hey somebody’s making stuff, move along?
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Sounds a bit like my kind of prophetic monster. I love digging around and putting fancy flower seeds and stuff like that. Too bad there’s only so much time to do that.
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It foretells construction work like digging for foundations etc.?
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Yes
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