The place known as the Festering Pit has for most of recorded history been the location deep in the Shadowlands where Fu Leng first fell to earth. Since then there have been other locations also named or nicknamed the Festering Pit. The term could refer to any of the following;
- Festering Pit of Fu Leng - where Fu Leng landed in the Shadowlands.
- Festering Pit (Ryoko Owari Toshi) - a neighborhood of the Leatherworker's Quarter at Ryoko Owari Toshi
- Second Festering Pit - where Daigotsu killed Kali-Ma in Scorpion lands at the end of the Destroyer War.