"Master Moore, if it's not too much to ask, can you share that medicinal recipe with me? I'm willing to pay you with contribution points for it," another Alchemy Master approached Alchemy Master Moore expectantly.
Any Alchemy Master could see that the medicinal recipe Alchemy Master Moore had just learned was extraordinary.
After all, it was one thing to use rank-6 ingredients to refine a rank-6 divine medicine. On the other hand, it was a completely different story to use rank-5 ingredients to refine a rank-6 deviant medicine.
Alchemy was the art of combining different magical plants and herbal extracts to produce medicine of a specific effect and potency. Generally, the quality of the medicine wouldn't exceed the rank of ingredients used in its refinement.
As such, alchemy recipes that could produce higher-ranking medicines with lower-ranking ingredients were rare and more valuable.