These five were far stronger than the cultivators of the Cangwu Realm. Even the strongest Mahayana cultivator could not withstand three moves against them.
Without question, these five were the strongest figures in the Cangwu Realm.
After enduring countless hardships to break through and ascend, only to be left where they were in the end, the five Venerables naturally harbored feelings too complicated to put into words. Over the passing years, they even came to resent the Cangwu Realm.
Some cultivators, having surpassed everyone else in a single stroke and unable to break through any further, began coveting the power and authority their strength brought. They began stirring up storms across the Five Continents.
During that period, conflicts erupted between the Five Continents year after year, with casualties in every clash measured in the hundreds of thousands.
As the contradictions between the Five Continents intensified, the once-peaceful Cangwu Realm abruptly became a living hell.
The flames of war spread to nearly every corner of the Five Continents. No one could escape them.
The conflict among the five Venerables also grew fiercer by the day, until it reached an irreconcilable point. The five Venerables led their trusted followers and agreed to wage a great battle within the Central Continent.
This battle would determine who would rule the Cangwu Realm thereafter, and who would submit beneath another and obey their commands.
The battle lasted an entire year. Half of the Central Continent was razed to the ground. In the end, all five perished together, buried in a place called Heartbreak Cliff.
Later, this Ancient Battlefield was named the Five Gods Battlefield.
That was because the five who had led the battle were beings who had surpassed Mahayana at the time.
To cultivators of the Cangwu Realm, anything above Mahayana was a god.