The female cultivator laughed a few times louder. "You're quick-witted."
"Thank you for the compliment." Lin Qi bowed respectfully. "Could you be the Ten Directions Venerate?"
The Ten Directions Venerate stood with her hands behind her back and did not answer Lin Qi's question.
"Then begin."
Lin Qi: "...No hints at all?"
The Ten Directions Venerate pondered for a moment, then said slowly, "Do everything within your power."
Lin Qi thought for a long while, not daring to make a move rashly. In the end, she simply sat cross-legged where she was, took out paper and a brush, and began drawing on the ground.
Although she had learned from the Ten Directions Venerate that this test required her to draw an array formation,
the Ten Directions Venerate had not revealed a single thing about the array formation's requirements.
That one sentence—do everything within your power—had Lin Qi scratching her ears and cheeks in frustration.
With her current abilities, crafting a ninth-grade array formation would be tremendously difficult.
Though she had experienced being a Mahayana cultivator in the Rebirth Illusion and had successfully set up two ninth-grade array formations, that had relied on her possessing the strength of a Mahayana cultivator.
If she crafted a ninth-grade array formation now, it would drain her dry on the spot.
But if she merely crafted an eighth-grade array formation, Lin Qi felt it would be far too ordinary.
The Ten Directions Venerate was, after all, the foremost array master famed throughout the Five Continents. She was likely to look down on Lin Qi's eighth-grade array formation.
In the blink of an eye, a large pile of array-pattern drafts had accumulated across the ground.
Among those drafts were common high-difficulty array formations, rare and obscure formations, and even quite a few ancient formations Lin Qi