Rebirth in the Apocalypse: My Ex-Girlfriend's Guide to Winning Me Over

Zuo You smirked and asked with obvious disapproval, "What were you thinking, making the water element the painters, the wood element the carpenters, the earth element the masons, and the metal element the general laborers?"

"Isn't it incredibly reasonable? I admire these people's ingenuity! Ordinary people can't afford this level of renovation talent. I was just thinking that you guys needed to move in urgently." Jian Hong proudly straightened his back.

Lin Ling overheard this as she came downstairs and jokingly said with a smile, "Da Hong, it has to be you again!"

Jian Hong saw Lin Ling coming downstairs and laughed, "Of course, am I more reliable than your Zuo You?"

"You're overthinking it!" Lin Ling scoffed, then took the renovation contractor to discuss the plans.

Jian Hong looked at Zuo You, who was cooking porridge, and said, "The city lord wants to see you. He has something to discuss with you."

"Okay, let me have some breakfast first. Have you eaten?"

As soon as Zuo You finished speaking, her vision blurred and she suddenly found herself in a new space.

The space hasn't changed much, except for the addition of a mountain stream and a steaming hot spring.

Before I could examine it closely, a somewhat ethereal voice sounded behind me, clear and aloof.

"Little girl, why aren't you paying homage to me at once!"

Zuo You had a bad feeling; the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

She turned around somewhat stiffly and saw an extremely beautiful woman dressed in ancient attire, her white robes fluttering in the wind.

Her long hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall, her skin was as white as snow, and her eyes were indifferent and deep, as if everything in this world had nothing to do with her.

Zuo You glanced at the Frost Offering the woman was carrying and asked in surprise, "Are you a spatial artifact or a Frost Offering?"

With a wave of her hand, the scene before Zuo You's eyes suddenly shifted, and she found herself inside the wooden house.

"Since you named me Frost Sacrifice, then let it be Frost Sacrifice."

The woman's voice was soft and gentle, but every word was clear in Zuo You's ears: "I can only be here for ten minutes. Ask me anything, and I can answer you for nine minutes. The other minute is for me to beat you up."

Zuo You's eye twitched, clearly unconvinced.

"Why are you hitting me? I'm your master!"

"Master, my ass! If it weren't for saving you, would I be nothing but a wisp of a soul? You want to be my mother? You need to be taught a lesson."

Frost's sudden outburst startled Zuo You. How could this god-like figure be so irritable?

"Why are you bringing up old, trivial matters? Besides, didn't you already hit her that time?" Zuo You's expression went out of control, her features contorted, completely losing her usual aloof demeanor.

"Hmph!" Frost Sacrifice scoffed disdainfully. "What's a year to you is just a blink of an eye to me. Ask what you have to say, and then don't keep bothering me with questions and disturbing my sleep."

As she spoke, she sat down in the chair, poured herself a glass of water, and did so with elegance and grace.

Zuo You gritted her teeth and asked the question that had been bothering her for a long time.

"Who are you? Did you give me a second life? Why did you save me? What is your relationship with this space? What other functions does this space have besides its current functions?"

"Who am I..." Shuangji narrowed her eyes, as if recalling something, "It's been too long, I've forgotten."

This space was originally my natal artifact. Although I am now just a remnant soul, I still have some control over it.

The space is actually a trial realm. In your supernatural ability cultivation system, ice-type supernatural ability users can achieve twice the results with half the effort by cultivating inside.

Your current rank is too low; you'll have to figure it out on your own.

I owe your ancestor a life. I once swore an oath to protect your Zuo family for an entire era. A year ago, the last surviving member of the Zuo family died. I had no choice but to use a forbidden technique to take you back.

Who would have thought that my rescue would be in vain? You found a same-sex Daoist partner, and the Zuo family line still ended with you. I have no interest in what kind of Daoist partner you found, but the problem is, I died for nothing!!!

When Shuangji said the last three words, there were obvious signs of her going berserk.

Zuo You couldn't describe her current mood, and she didn't have time to sort out her thoughts.

Ready to escape at any moment, he asked again, "Are you dead? Aren't you perfectly fine here?"

"It's inappropriate to call me a remnant soul now; I should be called a sword spirit." Frost Sacrifice looked at the long sword she was inhabiting.

"This sword is your family heirloom, but unfortunately, the sword spirit died in the great war of the last universe reboot. When I brought you back, you weren't completely destroyed. The last bit of your remnant soul was attached to this sword. As a result, you went through a blood-drop treasure-recognition process, which caused me to merge with this broken sword!"

Zuo You was a little embarrassed. No wonder Shuang Ji had never liked her much; it turned out she had tricked her. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I was just trying it out of intuition, and I didn't expect it to work."

"If you were doing this on purpose, you would have seen your Zuo family patriarch long ago. There are still three minutes left, go ahead and ask." Shuangji took a sip of water without even raising her head.

"What is a cosmic reboot? Do you know why Earth is the way it is now?"

Frost Festival organized her thoughts and explained in simple terms: "You can think of the universe as a computer. Now it needs to be formatted and restarted. The apocalypse is just a formatting process. If you win, you'll welcome a new world; if you lose, you'll be formatted up."

The apocalypse isn't limited to Earth; every planet in the universe with life is undergoing various transformations. What you call the apocalypse is actually an evolutionary path the universe is providing for all life.

Zuo You didn't know what Shuang Ji meant by "three minutes." Did it mean she wouldn't answer any of her questions anymore, or something else?

But she knew there was no time to waste and didn't have time to process what Frost Festival had just said, so she continued, "Why did the firearms fail?"

"Are you stupid? The rules of the universe are changing, and these changes will affect various planets to varying degrees. The physical laws before the apocalypse are invalid."

"How do you know this?"

"I've been through this several times already, what do you think?" Shuangji leaned back in her chair, twirling the water glass in her hand, and looked at the Zuo family's little girl with a bored expression.

He was a promising talent for cultivating ice-based techniques, what a pity.

"Are you a cultivator? Is cultivating immortality more powerful or supernatural abilities?"

After hearing the answer to the previous question, Zuo You blurted out another question.

"Cultivation and superpowers are not cultivation systems from the same period. If we have to compare them, superpowered individuals are trash in the eyes of cultivators."

Unfortunately, the cultivation system consumes a lot of the universe's lifespan and has been eliminated by the universe. Even if there are powerful cultivators like me who have survived to this day, they can no longer use magic because they are restrained by the rules of the universe.

"If you were to pursue cultivation, even if you were given ten thousand years, you still wouldn't be able to draw qi into your body; the universe currently lacks spiritual energy."

"Then why were you able to teleport me?"

"Because this broken sword is made of a special material, teleportation is a built-in skill of your sword. What does it have to do with cultivating immortality? It's just that you're too weak and can't use this skill without my help."

"Alright, time's up. I'm going to take a nap. Next time you're done with me, remember to throw me into the well."

As he spoke, the spirit of the Frost Sacrifice Blade transformed into countless tiny stars, surging into Frost Sacrifice. Then, Frost Sacrifice soared into the air, lashing the back of its blade left and right before plunging headfirst into the well.