Success

"What is that new disciple doing?" one of the people in the room asked. They were occupied with their own alchemy but seeing the strangeness of Shen Bao's actions they were all wondering what this new guy was doing.

Instead of cleaning the old cracked and clearly dilapidated furnace, he was actually smacking it. Which could probably cause it to fracture even further.

Yet after a while, all the gunk inside the furnace seemed to be ejected due to the force of the slaps it took.

What a pitiful furnace they thought.

Then, without further ado, instead of refining the ingredients, the new disciple started by heating the furnace. Not using the Heartfire that was supplied by the sect under each alchemy position. But using his own internal Qi.