Where there were Three Good Paths, there were naturally also Three Evil Paths. The Hell Path, Hungry Ghost Path, and Animal Path were the Three Evil Paths corresponding to the Heavenly Human Path, Asura Path, and Human Dao, commonly known as the Lower Three Paths.
Good and evil opposed each other, and the two were basically in balance. The Hell Path corresponded to the Heavenly Human Path, which ranked first among the Three Good Paths.
The Hell Path itself was a place of punishment within Reincarnation, as well as a place of purification. Anyone who was not heinously evil and steeped in sin would not enter the Hell Path.
Any soul that had committed countless evils in life, was entangled in Karma, and bore grave sins would be cast into the Hell Path after judgment.
There, it would endure punishments corresponding to its sins, wearing away its Karma and purifying its True Spirit.
Only after its Karma had been completely exhausted would it have a chance to reincarnate.
The punishments within were severe and the rules cold-blooded, making it an indispensable part of maintaining order in the Great Wilderness.
Even the punishments in the Eighteen Layers of Hell guarded by Xuan Ming were child's play compared to those of the Hell Path.
The Hell Path was the most terrifying place in the entire Underworld. This also made it just as difficult to enter as the Heavenly Human Path.
However, one was difficult to enter because Merit was so hard to obtain, while the other was difficult to enter because ordinary people truly found it hard to commit an act so heinous that even Heaven and Earth would hate them for it.
The only certainty was that anyone who entered the Hell Path was certainly heinously evil.
Even if they endured