The Apocalypse: An Otherworldly Empress Crashes into Me from the Start

A plot-driven story with everyday moments and a touch of sweetness, set in an alternate modern world. An ensemble cast early on. No mindless power fantasy, indiscriminate killing, or saintly protagonist.

The full progression from modern times to the apocalypse, spiritual qi revival, regional warlordism, and the outbreak of an immortal calamity. The pioneering work of the descent genre.

After the apocalypse, modern civilization is rebuilt amid regional warlordism.

Descent genre + no demonizing men or women + stockpiling supplies + laying low and steadily growing stronger + bloodthirsty giant corpses + cultivation + spiritual qi revival

A heavenly stele appears, and a wounded Empress arrives in the present world as a crisis erupts. She lends him a pocket-sized world of his own, helping him stockpile supplies and lie low until the crisis passes.

He proceeds with caution at every step, yet still dies before the crisis ends. Then comes an unexpected stroke of luck: reborn amid the ruins, he awakens to a world undergoing spiritual qi revival, and sealed memories come flooding back. So I was the only true god in another world all along!

The world undergoes a sudden change, and a young man walks out of the wasteland with a razor in hand...