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The female cultivator's laughter rang out a few times. "You're quite quick-witted,"

"Thank you for the praise," Lin Qi respectfully bowed. "Senior, are you perhaps the Venerable Ten Directions?"

<<><>Ten Directions Venerable stood with his hands behind his back, without responding to Lin Qi's question.

"Then, you should begin."

"...No hints at all?"

The Venerable Ten Directions pondered for a moment, then spoke in a soft voice: "Do your best."

Lin Qi thought for a long time, not daring to act rashly. She simply sat cross-legged on the spot and took out paper and pen to draw on the ground.

Although I got the news from Venerable Shifang this time, the assessment requires drawing an array.

But what are the requirements of the formation? The Venerable One from Ten Directions did not reveal a single detail.

Your all-out effort left Lin Qi utterly stumped.

Given her current capabilities, it would be extremely difficult for her to refine a ninth-rank array formation.

Although I had the experience card of a Mahayana cultivator and successfully set up two ninth-rank formations in the Returning to the Illusory Realm, that was all predicated on Lin Qi's status as a Mahayana cultivator.

This would result in the creation of a ninth-rank formation, which could directly drain Lin Qi.

But if it's just refining an eighth-rank formation, Lin Qi felt it was too ordinary.

Even though Shifang Zun is renowned as the first master array formation in Five Continents, he probably wouldn't look highly on her eighth rank array formation.

In the blink of an eye, a large sheet of glyphs appeared on the ground.

These array diagrams contain common high-difficulty formations, rare and obscure formations, and even quite a few ancient formations learned by Lin Qi from the Di Gong Academy.

The Venerable Tih-Fang looked on, his eyes devoid of any ripple.

Lin Qi knew that these formations couldn't move her.

Then there is only one way.

Create your own eight-rank formation!

When this idea popped into her head, Lin Qi felt incredibly bold.

If learning formations is like scaling a sheer cliff face, then an array master from rank one to nine progresses from the abyss to the peak.

However, since many people have climbed before, there's a well-established path to follow.

But to create your own battle formation is like having to find a new path to climb up by hand.

A chasm of a thousand meters, one wrong step could shatter you to pieces.

Lin Qi hesitated for three seconds, but still decided to create an eighth-rank formation.

Looking at Venerable Shifang's appearance, it's likely that a simple formation wouldn't pass her test. Only a self-created eight-grade formation could possibly catch her eye.

After deciding to create a new formation, the question of what kind of formation to create became a major challenge.

Lian Qi spent three days setting up the formation.

I just don't know if the time flow rate inside the Wǔshén Tǎ is the same as outside.

Lin Qi thought, since she had already been bold enough to create her own formation, why not be even bolder?

She wants to create a formation related to the Bing Huang Clan!

Sheets of paper piled on the ground, none of them complete forms.

From the initial few dots and lines to lines occupying half the space.

The paper was slowly being covered in paint.

Time flew by unknowingly, and Lin Qi gradually brought her ideas to life.

When the first draft was drawn, it was already after March.

Lin Qi looked at the drawing, always feeling it wasn't good enough, and picked up a pen to start making changes.

The second version of the drawing took longer, directly going past half a year.

All of her thoughts had just settled.

The third and fourth versions were gradually modified in terms of some details.

Now, Lin Qi has entered a state of profound mystery, oblivious to the expressions on the faces of the Ten Fang Lords.

She studied formations day and night.

When the formation diagram was finally set, two years had passed. The drawing had been revised one hundred and thirty-seven times before it was finalized.

After confirming, Lin Qi didn't even glance at the Ten Directions Venerable. She took a few steps forward, took down the scroll and formation disk, and began drawing the formation patterns.

She drew out the only Eight-Rank Heavenly Mandate pen in her possession, ruthlessly slashing her arm, and a few drops of blood stained red at the tip of her nose.

Lin Qi took a brush and began to write.

Lines of mystical patterns were drawn on the shaft. Qi within the body drained rapidly, forming a single, powerful breath.

A complex and ancient pattern landed, Lin Qi took a pen and wrote the three words "Bound Phoenix Formation" below it, a sense of accomplishment surged.

Once the formation was set, Lin Qi began to construct the formation disk.

The Binding Phoenix Formation requires the gathering of phoenix blood, phoenix markings, and phoenix bones. It consists of eighty-one formation points and is finally sealed with a phoenix imprint.

Although it was scheduled to be an eighth-rank formation disk, Lin Qi himself didn't know how powerful the finished product would be.

Without phoenix blood, she used her own blood to draw.

The phoenix pattern was drawn based on the appearance of the ice phoenix she had seen in the Ice Phoenix clan, and she also incorporated some patterns she had encountered into the array.

This formation can become an eighth-rank formation, the most important thing is to construct ninety-nine eighty-one array points of the Phoenix bone.

Lin Qi used a piece of ice phoenix bone she had once obtained.

Finally, with a gathered spirit, on the empty space above the array disk, a talisman brush was used to draw the Imperial Phoenix Seal.

The Triple Emperor Phoenix Seal superimposed, its power doubled, transforming into a gigantic Emperor Phoenix Seal that landed in the center of the formation. It also temporarily sealed all the power of the formation.

The moment the Imperial Phoenix Seal fell, the eighth-rank formation, the Phoenix Binding Formation, was complete!

All the floating spiritual energies vanished instantly into the intangible.

Looking down, the array within seemed to have countless chains weaving through it. Four enormous ice phoenix phantoms were linked head-to-tail, trapped in the center of the formation by the chains.

A heavy pressure emanates from the board, even though it's been suppressed.

No one could have predicted how terrifying it would be when the formation was fully unleashed.

The game board materialized, and Lin Qi's spiritual energy was instantly drained.

She seemed to have trekked through hardship for years, collapsing onto the ground in an instant, her whole body radiating fatigue. Yet, her eyes shone with an extraordinary brilliance.

For Lin Qi at this moment, the completion of the Bi Huang Formation holds monumental significance. It marks a major milestone in her journey of array cultivation.

At this moment, she no longer had any time to worry about the assessment.

Ten Fang Venerable's eyes, which had been calm and composed, gradually shifted to admiration.

“Binding Phoenix Array?” The Venerable Shifang didn’t know when he had stood beside the formation, lowering his gaze as he slowly read out those three characters.

Lin Qi heard the sound, but didn't even blink.

After spending two years and two months studying battle formations, she was exhausted to the point of mental collapse.

"Master, have I passed the test?"

Ten Directions Venerable did not directly answer Lin Qi, but instead asked, "Aren't you going to introduce the formation to me?"

Lin Qi: "Actually, I don't know much about it either. It should be an eighth-rank high-grade formation called the Phoenix Binding Array, both offensive and defensive, specifically designed for the Ice Phoenix clan..."

"Specialized for the Bing Huang clan?"

Lin Qi honestly admitted: "This formation is a simple attack formation for ordinary cultivators. However, it's specifically designed to counter the Ice Phoenix clan. Ordinary people inside the formation will bear double the pressure, while the Ice Phoenix clan will endure at least ten times the pressure."

Why was this formation created?

Lin Qi's mind was racing with thoughts. She slowly said, "Because just the other day, I was chased by a disciple of the Bing Huang clan. I had no power to fight back. This life "

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