I became a saint through my son's boasting.

"Ouch, my kidneys!"

As soon as Bu Qingshan regained consciousness, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back.

He lay on the cold floor, his eyes drawn to the mortise and tenon structure of the wooden beams, exuding an ancient atmosphere.

"Did we time travel?"

As soon as he thought that, a wave of unfamiliar memories flooded his mind.

I really time-traveled!

This world is teeming with demons, but it also has human cultivators.

His current identity is that of the son-in-law of the Chen family, a family of cultivators in the Great hope Dynasty, and his name is Bu Qingshan, with the character "shan" meaning clothes.

Three years ago, the Chen family was wiped out by a mysterious force!

On that night of massacre, his wife, Chen Xiyao, risked her life to stop the pursuing enemies, allowing his predecessor to escape with their three-year-old son.

The original owner fled to this remote village with her son, and from then on lived in anonymity, only wanting to raise her son.

I never expected this.

He had been hiding for three years, but his enemy still found him. The enemy sent a black-clad assassin who stabbed him to death with a single sword strike.

Then he traveled through time.

"It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death; it's better to be alive."

Bu Qingshan slowly got up from the ground.

This time he won't commit suicide easily. After all, he prayed to every god and Buddha in the dozen or so seconds before falling to his death, which earned him this chance to be reborn.

"Oh, just like in the storybooks, he really didn't die. Luckily, I was cautious and went back to check again."

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

Bu Qingshan turned around abruptly and saw a man in black holding a blood-stained longsword standing at the door, looking at him coldly.

Holy crap!

Bu Qingshan wanted to curse.

Isn't this the black-clad assassin who stabbed Qian Sheng to death? The other party is much stronger than him; he killed Qian Sheng in just two moves.

"A cheat system? A system? Help!"

Bu Qingshan silently shouted in his heart, and even thought that the golden finger might be voice-controlled, so he shouted it out aloud.

"Huh? Has this kid gone mad?"

The man in black frowned. He couldn't understand what the other person was saying. What did they mean by "thin bucket" and "thick bucket"?

"Hmph, whether you're truly insane or feigning madness, you're going to die today!"

The man in black snorted coldly and approached step by step, sword in hand.

Bu Qingshan was extremely anxious.

Just then, a mechanical voice rang out.

[Ding! Your son boasted that he could eat cockroaches raw, and someone believed him, so it became a reality.]

"What the heck?"

Bu Qingshan was stunned.

Before he could think any further...

A five-centimeter-long cockroach flew over the wall. His body moved uncontrollably, and he grabbed the cockroach, stuffed it into his mouth, and began to chew it.

"Click, click, click..."

It's crunchy and tastes like chicken.

Bu Qingshan felt extremely nauseous and wanted to vomit, but his body was being forcibly controlled by a mysterious force and was completely out of his control.

At this moment, the man in black opposite him felt nauseous and cursed, "How can you be so disgusting?!"

Bu Qingshan's face was covered in tears.

I don’t want to either!

A moment later, Bu Qingshan chewed up the cockroach and swallowed it. The taste was truly disgusting, making him want to hit someone.

[Ding! Your son boasted that he could eat a giant centipede raw, and someone believed him, so it became a reality.]

The mechanical voice sounded again.

The next moment, a 20-centimeter-long black centipede crawled out of a crack in the wall.

Bu Qingshan uncontrollably bent down, grabbed the centipede, and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it again, and it was still crunchy and tasted like chicken.

The centipede was even half inside its mouth, with the other half swaying outside.

"vomit--"

The assassin in black could no longer bear it and bent over to vomit.

That's disgusting!

A moment later, Bu Qingshan swallowed the entire centipede. At that moment, he wished he could grab his troublesome son and give him a good beating.

"Is it finally over...? You disgusting brat, die!!"

Fearing he might pull off some incredible move, the man in black didn't hesitate and charged straight at him.

"Clang—"

A flash of cold light appeared, and the sword energy was like a dragon.

Fast, too fast!

Bu Qingshan had no chance to dodge at all, and didn't even have time to react.

At the critical moment, the system beeped again.

[Ding! Your son boasted that you have skin of copper and bones of iron, and are impervious to swords and spears, and some people believed him. This is a manifestation of the Iron Bone Realm, so you have broken through to the Iron Bone Realm.]

"bite--"

The next moment, sparks flew as the longsword pierced his body, bending the entire blade but failing to penetrate even an inch.

Moreover, he felt his body was filled with power.

"Get out of here!"

He roared and threw a punch.

The man in black was momentarily stunned because his sword hadn't penetrated, and as a result, he couldn't dodge the fatal punch.

"boom--"

The punch landed squarely on his chest, the terrifying force piercing through his body and tearing a hole in the back of his clothes.

"puff!"

He coughed up blood and flew backward, crashing into the doorway, blood still gushing from his mouth, his eyes wide with horror.

"Iron Bone Realm... How is that possible!"

As a professional assassin, the organization informed him that the target's cultivation level was at most the sixth level of the Nine Oxen Realm.

Moreover, he had clearly pierced through the opponent with a single sword strike and killed him, but he somehow came back to life and even became a master of the Iron Bone Realm.

"wrong!"

Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his spine!

Resurrected from the dead? Daring to eat cockroaches alive? And with such a significant increase in strength?

Could this person have been possessed by a demon?

"You, you stay away... Pfft!"

In his terror, he coughed up a mouthful of blood and died.

"Huh? You scared me to death?"

Bu Qingshan was stunned for a moment.

Looking at the corpses on the ground, his body trembled involuntarily. After all, it was his first time killing someone, so it was impossible not to be nervous.

In his past life, he was a law-abiding citizen. Although he had thrown objects from high-rise buildings, he threw them at himself.

After a moment, Bu Qingshan overcame his fear and began to touch the corpse.

He hoped to find some clues about the other party's identity.

"Huh, a token?"

Soon, he had a black chess piece in his hand, with "Mingfenglou" engraved on one side and "Huang" on the other.

"This is an assassin from Mingfeng Tower, and a low-level Yellow-rank assassin at that?"

Bu Qingshan was overjoyed!

This means that the man in black was not sent by the mysterious enemy who destroyed the Chen family.

That mysterious enemy is so powerful that they don't need to hire assassins at all; anyone they send out would be ten times better than this assassin!

Moreover, even if they hired assassins, they wouldn't hire such low-level assassins.

Those powerful forces wouldn't be this shabby.

"As far as I know, if an assassin from Mingfeng Tower fails in a mission and is killed in retaliation, Mingfeng Tower will declare the assassin dead on the third day."

"Then they would ask the employer if they wanted to continue the cooperation. If they did, they would have to pay more to hire a more high-level assassin."

"If the employer dies within three days, then this cooperation will automatically terminate."

"According to the rules of the assassin profession, if an assassin is killed in retaliation, he can only accept his bad luck, and the assassin organization cannot retaliate."

Bu Qingshan stroked his chin and nodded.

This rule is reasonable.

After all, a hitman kills a stranger for money. If he gets killed in return and then seeks revenge, isn't that just being a sore loser?

"Our top priority is to find that hired assassin within three days and take him out!"

Bu Qingshan searched through his predecessor's memories of this period, and after careful analysis, quickly identified a suspect.

Zhou Daya!

He was a wealthy merchant in Qingyuan County.

A few days ago, my predecessor went to Qingyuan County to buy daily necessities and happened to witness the other party forcibly abducting a woman. My predecessor stepped forward and beat the other party up.

Although the other party knelt down and begged for mercy at the time, given his character of forcibly abducting women, it was impossible not to retaliate.

Soon, Bu Qingshan buried the black-clad assassin's body and then changed into clean clothes.

Then he was astonished to find that his back injury had completely disappeared, without even leaving a scar!

Perhaps the system helped him improve his cultivation level and also healed his injuries.

"Is this the Iron Bone Realm?"

Bu Qingshan clenched his fists with great force.

In the memories of the previous incarnation, the cultivation realms in this world were divided into: Nine Oxen, Iron Bones, Five Organs, Innate, Mortal Transformation, Dragon Transformation, Mountain and Sea, and Star Picking.

Of course, the Star-Picking Realm may not be the end of cultivation, but rather the previous incarnation's limited perspective, knowing only these things.

"This body's talent for cultivation is truly terrible."

Bu Qingshan gave a bitter smile.

The world opens a door for you, but closes a window. This body is too good-looking, so its cultivation talent is as bad as dog shit.

The original owner had been a live-in son-in-law in the Chen family for five years, consuming a great deal of resources. Even a dog could have broken through to the Iron Bone Realm, but the original owner only reached the fifth level of the Nine Ox Realm.

"Dad, I'm home!"

Just then, a little boy's voice came from the gate of the courtyard. It was soft and sweet, and he seemed to think he was quite cute.

Bu Qingshan's blood pressure spiked as he recalled eating cockroaches and centipedes earlier.

"The traitor!!!"