When Scholar and Legends Meet

When Scholar and Legends Meet is the ninth request in Part II of the Lantern Rite Tales event. It opens on the eighth day of the event.
==Steps==
# Talk to Soraya
# Retrieve the Soil Sample
# Report back to Soraya
# Follow the mountain path
# Defeat the hilichurls
# Talk to Soraya
==Dialogue==
;(Talk to Soraya)
:Soraya: Mt. Tianheng... Skybracer... Hmm...
: What are you thinking about?
:Soraya: Ah, I'm currently researching the history and legends of Lantern Rite.
:Soraya: I've heard that this year's Mingxiao Lantern is modeled after an adeptus named Skybracer.
:Soraya: From what legends I've been able to gather, this adeptus also fought alongside Rex Lapis for a time.
:Soraya: The exact times and the enemies they faced have different from text to ancient text...
:Soraya: But all the sources concur that Skybracer has already passed on, and it has been stated that this adeptus once held Mt. Tianheng up with their own antlers.
:Soraya: That's why I came to Mt. Tianheng to see for myself, thinking that if I got lucky, I might find something...
:Soraya: But as it turns out, Mt. Tianheng is crawling with monsters. After ascertaining the site for my investigations, I found it to be so full of monsters as to be impassable...
:Soraya: Traveler, if you're willing, could you help me investigate and take some soil samples?
: Soil... samples?
:Soraya: Well, that's what we'd say at the Akademiya, but what we really mean is some soil from the area in question.
:Soraya: Local legends hold that Skybracer held Mt. Tianheng up with their own antlers...
:Soraya: From an academic perspective, it stands to reason that the ground here might have an unusual composition.
:Soraya: So please, help me go there and retrieve a soil sample.
;(Talk to Soraya again)
:Soraya: Antlers... Mt. Tianheng... Hmm, if this is real...
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;(Report back to Soraya)
:Soraya: Have you brought the sample back with you?
: I've brought it.
:Soraya: Thank you very much. Let me have a look.
:Soraya: ...Hmm, there seems to be nothing special about the soil here.
: What were you hoping to find?
:Soraya: The legends say that Skybracer used their strong antlers to protect Liyue Harbor by preventing Mt. Tianheng from collapsing.
:Soraya: I thought that I could at least find some fragments of those antlers...
:Soraya: As I thought, legends are just that, legends... Or has so much time passed since that battle that all traces of it have long since vanished?
:Soraya: Still, getting a soil sample is, in and of itself, not a bad result...
:Soraya: Traveler, could you accompany me for a while longer? I'd like to head upwards, it shouldn't be too far.
: Leave it to me.
: What are you looking for this time?
:Soraya: This time... I want to get to a vantage point from which I can overlook Mt. Tianheng and study its terrain.
:Soraya: The tales say that Rex Lapis and many adepti took part in that battle, and very nearly caused Mt. Tianheng to collapse.
:Soraya: If the battle truly was that fierce, then perhaps we might be able to deduce something from the terrain.
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;(Upon approaching the hilichurls)
:Soraya: There... appears to be a great number of hilichurls over there.
:Soraya: Looks like we'll have to get past them if we wish to proceed.
:Soraya: I'll leave it to you, Traveler. There's no way I can take them on...
;(Talk to Soraya after defeating the hilichurls)
:Soraya: We're finally here... That journey would have been tough enough even without those monsters...
:Soraya: Hmm... There doesn't seem to be anything special about the terrain here...
:Soraya: Huh? What's this in the tree... Oh, it's a Xiao Lantern...
:Soraya: Why would there be a Xiao Lantern here? Did someone come here to pay their respects to the deceased adeptus?
:Soraya: There's something written here...
:Soraya: "May all the world be at peace."
: A magnificent wish.
: It doesn't sound like this person was here to pay respects...
:Soraya: Indeed. But this wish... How should I put it... It seems a little too magnificent. This seems neither like a wish, nor a way of paying respects.
:Soraya: It seems more like a wish that one of those adepti of legend might make.
:Soraya: I wonder, who would write such a wish onto a Xiao Lantern? How strange...
:Soraya: Regardless, it seems that at least someone remembered to put a Xiao Lantern up here. That adeptus should be quite pleased.
:Soraya: Thank you for accompanying me all this way. I'd like to stay here and do a bit more research...
:Soraya: Ah, yes. This is for you. Consider it thanks for your help.
:Soraya: *sigh* Liyue has so many legends, and yet my research has seen no progress made at all...
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