This was originally a normal xianxia world. Cultivators walked the path to immortality, striving for that single chance at transcendence and cultivating themselves to attain eternal life. Immortals stood high above the world, possessing great powers and keeping their distance from the mortal realm, where a thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
All of this had nothing to do with ordinary mortals who had neither the fate nor the aptitude to become immortals, until a meteor arrived from beyond the heavens and brought a small change to the history of this world.