Chapter 53: To Such Lengths

'They really can talk!'

The fact surprised Feng Biao, but he wasn't entirely shocked. He had a hunch this was possible based on his previous interaction with the Black Oni.

'Despite being able to talk it doesn't seem to be in a talking mood.'

The Black Oni was now reaching down towards Feng Biao's right hand. It seemed to be deliberately taking its time. Crouching down over Feng Biao to bring its face close to his.

'You wanna make me scream huh?'

"[Vajra]."

With fury Feng Biao channeled his Divinity into his right fist smashing into the Black Oni's palm. To do this required he pour Divinity into every part of it. Rather than swinging his arm with his nerves he had willed the Divinity in his body to make his arm move.

Loading it with [Indra's Tricks] the fist would stun the Black Oni on impact. If it had made impact.

Sensing the Divinity flowing in Feng Biao's right fist the Black Oni responsed with malice.

Still wanting to torture Feng Biao, but unwilling to allow that fist to strike him it lopped off his right fist. Making sure to catch it. A Mark was a Mark after all. His Lord had said something about it being empty but it still felt Divinity inside the Mark. At worst the hand would be fed to a Green Oni to accelerate their growth.

"Haha, I knew you'd do that."

The Black Oni looked puzzled and then felt a surge of Divinity rise from the Mark. Before it died down again.

An instant before his right hand had been chopped off Feng Biao had activated Vajra willing it to materialize in his right hand.

It had done so for a split second, but was unable to even fully form after Feng Biao's Mark was disconnected from his Contract.

When the Vajra dissipated the lightning it contained would always be released. Regardless of the circumstances. Therefore the Black Oni was now directly holding a surge of lightning.

It was painful, very painful. The Black Oni felt its entire body being fried, but it refused to let this end it. It would endure this pain and when it was over then it would make Feng Biao feel this same pain until he screamed-

"AHHHHHHHHHHH."

Currently Feng Biao had no Divinity. He could not stand, he could not punch, he could not use any Divine Abilities.

However, he could still lift his head. Cocking his neck back Feng Biao shot towards the Black Oni with his final weapon. Screaming all the while.

The Black Oni tried to meet the attack, but found its body could barely follow its commands. It could only sluggishly move after the shock unable to stop what was coming.

A headbutt that smashed against the Black Oni's skull met with the weakest part. That part was the section Chen Lan had brutally hit nearly caving it in before.

Without any Impure Divinity to shield itself Feng Biao's pure physical strike broke through. Caving in its skull and causing it to slump down.

Feng Biao also fell back, he no longer had the strength to stay conscious.

'I really hope Chen Lan has more Ambrosia...'

Chen Lan checked her PDS. 3 minutes until the exam ended, this was as good a spot as any.

"Oh Shuten-Douji, I must go back now."

"Whaaaat but I haven't even shown you a single cool spot, come on give me another 10 minutes," said the Fragment now pleading with Chen Lan.

"That...would be acceptable, but I must go back still. I will be back afterwards. Just continue waiting here for me."

With that said Chen Lan dashed off back up the mountain leaving Shuten-Douji alone. After a minute the Fragment got bored and snuck out its Oni-no-Hyoutan. Taking swigs to pass the time.

By the time Chen Lan got up the mountain she had a minute left in the exam. The proctor was still nowhere to be seen, and overall it seemed eerily quiet.

'What's that on top of Feng Biao?'

Looking over towards Feng Biao Chen Lan spotted a blackish yellow corpse slumped over him. Rapidly closing the distance Chen Lan found Feng Biao in a worse state than before.

The scene spoke for itself. While she was gone the Black Oni had recovered and tried to kill Feng Biao, he had managed to kill it, but was now in this state.

Chen Lan had forgotten about its existence the moment the Fragment appeared, after all she had handedly beat it and assumed it was no longer a threat. At the time she had a much bigger problem on her hands and hadn't even considered the possibility of it being in a good enough shape to walk.

"Damn it, damn it, you can't die like this you haven't even paid me back."

Biting her nails Chen Lan could still not really understand why watching the life drain from Feng Biao's face bothered her so much. Whatever the case was she had no more treasures to offer, she could not stop him from dying.

"Wew, little lady you sure are a riot. I was watching you with Shuten-Douji back there and I gotta' say A for effort."

"I mean seriously what is up with kids these days you youngsters don't even know how to flirt...jeez what's the world coming to."

"Proctor!" Chen Lan said as she twisted around. The man was not Kobayashi, but that fact didn't stop her from recognizing his clothing which showed his status.

"Please save him, he's dying!"

"Hoh, you want me to save him?"

"Yes!"

"Well technically I'm obligated to, but you know if he croaks then you get a higher score."

"I don't care about that."

"Yeesh, kids in love what can I say. Just don't come crawling to me when you get your heartbroken, brat."

"Shut your mouth!"

"Little girl you aren't even allowed to carry your families' name but you think you can order me around?"

"You know just for that I don't really think I've arrived here yet. Yes, I was on my way and unfortunately by the time I arrived your boyfriend passed away."

Chen Lan looked stunned as she saw the proctor was entirely serious. He had turned away from Feng Biao and clearly decided to let him die.

Gritting her teeth Chen Lan lowered her head. Her face burning with embarrassment she spoke.

"I am truly sorry esteemed elder, please forgive this young foolish one for her outburst."

"Haha, now that's what I'm talking about. See I know you don't really mean it, but I also know it really hurts you to apologize like that."

"Alright, let's go," said the man lugging Feng Biao over his shoulders. Looking around he saw the mounds of corpses and with a snap of finger they disappeared.

And in a moment so too did the only 3 humans on the mountain.