All around the lake, the Scholars of the Amber Lily Academy spread out for their various tasks. Alchemist Huang Yeyan led several mortal workers and a handful of research assistants in preparing to wade into several shallow areas of the lake to harvest plants that would be affected by the light of the eclipse. The alchemist expected to harvest as many as a dozen Lunar Eclipse Lotus Blossoms and easily promised Wu Ling the second best of the ones she collected.
Nearby, a researcher studying formations had erected a light gathering formation to help transform a stand of Blood Root Reeds into Bloody Moon Reeds, a rare ingredient that could be used in elixirs to restore fertility to female cultivators who had sacrificed their fertility in the pursuit of cultivation or who had lost it due to cultivation deviation.
