Chapter 23: Ten Aspects of Dharma Explanation, Five Mushrooms and Five Poisons
The disintegration of the Intercepting Cult in ancient times came a bit later than that of the Clarify Cult.
Similar to the Clarify Cult's division into three, the Intercepting Cult splintered into five: the Heavenly Demon Path, Mortal Life Path, Nether Ghost Path, Beast Taming Path, and Hell Path.
Later, the Beast Taming Path's lineage was destroyed and was overtaken and renamed by the Eastern Emperor Path.
Then, the Asura Path, hostile to the Western Cult, joined them, and thus they were collectively known by the Three Pure Orthodox Sect as the Six Paths of the Demon Cult.
Of these, the Hell Path claimed to be the inheritor of the "direct lineage of the Intercepting Cult," the most mysterious, with the Sect Residence whereabouts unknown;
Furthermore, the Mortal Life Path was located at Mount Wutai in eastern Shanxi, with the largest number of people.
The Nether Ghost Path was in Mount Beimang to the north of Luoyang, inhabited entirely by Ghost Cultivators.