In the Western Buddhist Kingdom, heaven and earth were customarily divided into the Six Paths: devas, humans, asuras, beasts, hungry ghosts, and hells—also called the Six Mortal Realms. All living beings unable to attain immortality entered them, cycling through life and death, rising and falling, unable to break free.
The ultimate materialization of this great law of cyclical rebirth was the Western Buddhist Kingdom's supreme Buddhist treasure, the "Six Paths Samsara."
The Hell Path was the harshest and most agonizing of the Six Paths. By the fundamental laws of the Buddhist Kingdom, those who committed the gravest evil karma would be reborn into the Hell Path and suffer endless, unceasing torment. Even should they die, they would be reborn in hell through karma, unable to escape. The beings within these hells were known as Hell Beings.
Hell Beings?
He raised his head and looked at the thirty-seven or thirty-eight figures now above them, his brow knitting slightly. "You mean those up there..."
"By those bald donkeys' reckoning, these people are no longer human, but Hell Beings. Though they are living creatures, their lives and deaths are no longer theirs to command. Only after suffering endless tortures and agony through several or even dozens of kalpas, until their evil karma is exhausted, can they be freed."
Yu Ci found it strange. "How could such things possibly appear here? This is the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram, the position of the Eastern Peak—the land of life and death, abode of ghosts and gods. It is a genuine mystic sect artifact!"
The Shadow Ghost gave a cold, eerie laugh. "Yet that is the fact! According to the teachings of Buddhism, if one dies in Karmic Fire, one will be reborn in hell. This is the great law of cyclical rebirth in the