Although Xia Lingyun was only twelve, he was already no different from an ordinary teenager.
I could be a little harsher on him. I wasn't afraid of kneeling on a washboard over at his mother's place, either.
Propping my chin on my hand, I turned my eyes toward this otherworld.
After I flicked Xia Lingyun into the otherworld, he came hurtling toward the ground!
With a thunderous boom, Xia Lingyun crashed and was sent reeling. A strand of my innate fortune quickly plunged in after him.
"How does it feel?" I rapidly absorbed the world's spiritual energy and soon took human form.
When Xia Lingyun saw that I had come down too, he struggled to get up, only to collapse face-first onto the ground again.
"Dad! Seriously? My bones... I think they're broken..." Xia Lingyun wailed.
I patted him on the back and said, "Get up. I only came down with a thought, so I didn't bring much power with me."
"But can't you at least wait until your son has rested?"
"You don't have time. There's a monster right—"
Roar, roar, roar!
Before I could finish, a bolt of lightning came crashing down. It was a giant bird resembling a vulture!
Crash!
Xia Lingyun sprang into the air and dodged the strike!
The enormous bird, with a wingspan of more than ten meters, shot into the sky after missing its attack. Xia Lingyun cried out anxiously, "What the hell is that thing? Dad, isn't this otherworld you sent me to a little too terrifying?!"
"I originally wanted to send you to school so you could experience the joys of campus life, but after thinking it over, even if you wanted to study, you'd have to crawl there yourself." I gave a wicked chuckle.
"What?! I..." Xia Lingyun looked left