Recaps

Su Cheng bound Calamity into a servant pact, subdued it, and ended the threat that had disrupted the instance. As the contestants prepared to leave, she and Lu Heng agreed to meet again, while Su Cheng said farewell to Mu Ling before everyone vanished.

• Su Cheng sprinted along Calamity’s arm and used a pact formation to bind it, enduring its backlash as Mu Ling helped protect her.
• Su Cheng and the Boning Knife attacked Calamity’s eyes until the servant pact was completed and Calamity was compressed into a chained sphere.
• Su Cheng sealed Calamity inside the black toad, erased its divine consciousness, and turned it into a monster emblem on her arm.
• The sky fissure closed, the monsters vanished, and the contestants learned that the instance countdown had resumed.
• Lu Heng climbed to the rooftop and asked Su Cheng to meet him after they returned; Su Cheng agreed and said farewell to Mu Ling.
• The countdown ended, and the contestants vanished from White Moon City.

Su Cheng returned from the dangerous competition instance in first place, collected her rewards, and recovered at home before studying the Primordial Talisman Compendium. After catching up with Xu Shaowei and Yan Yu about their ordeal, she agreed to meet them in the Central Circle to look for talisman materials.

• The instance ended with 221 survivors, and Su Cheng ranked first with an SSS rating and multiple hidden achievements.
• Su Cheng collected her points, meal vouchers, and Immortal-Binding Rope, then returned home exhausted and slept for ten hours.
• Su Cheng opened the Primordial Talisman Compendium after her class advanced to Immortal Celestial Master and began studying its talismans.
• Su Cheng kept the Calamity Seed and accepted friend requests from Yun Xi and Wang Tai while taking inventory of her supplies.
• Xu Shaowei and Yan Yu told Su Cheng how they explored the villa, fought Hu Ding and his companions, and witnessed the Calamity's arrival.
• Su Cheng agreed to meet Xu Shaowei and Yan Yu in the Central Circle to search for talisman-drawing materials.

Su Cheng left the Survival Apartment and returned to the real world, where six months had passed and disasters and supernatural incidents were spreading. She reunited with her family, learned that Qu Lan was missing, and prepared her relatives for the coming apocalypse while hoping Qu Lan would return safely.

• Su Cheng practiced talisman inscriptions, sold her completed talismans, and used her points to buy a pass out of the Survival Apartment.
• Tang Su removed Su Cheng's wristband, explained that most apartment-bought items could not leave, and helped her arrange an android body for the ghost in her stored bracelet.
• Su Cheng returned to the real world in a rainy alley, discovered that six months had passed, and called her aunt to say she was alive.
• Su Cheng researched the disasters and strange incidents that had spread during her absence and realized that the real world's apocalypse was approaching.
• Su Cheng learned that Qu Lan had gone missing after an earthquake and suspected she had been bound to the Survival Apartment system.
• Su Cheng comforted her aunt, gave her relatives talismans, and urged them to protect themselves while they waited for Qu Lan to return.

Su Cheng prepared for the apocalypse while staying with her family, then accepted Lu Heng’s invitation to join the government’s Special Affairs Bureau. She readied her repaired talisman-wrapped knife as a new battle approached.

• Su Cheng’s uncle worried about rising meat prices and government restrictions on supplies, but Su Cheng reassured her family.
• Su Cheng bought talisman materials and spent several days meditating and drawing talismans.
• Lu Heng invited Su Cheng to join the Special Affairs Bureau, first offering government benefits and then asking her personally to be his captain.
• Su Cheng agreed to join the Bureau and stroked her repaired, talisman-wrapped boning knife.