Ye Han had not expected Han Yuwan to seek him out to deal with a demon beast, much less to want the help of his high-grade treasure, the Thorn Bracelet.
Wealth should never be flaunted, and treasures should never be shown to others.
But who could he blame? He had asked Han Yuwan to help him choose the Thorn Bracelet last time.
He even suspected that Han Yuwan had deliberately steered him toward the Thorn Bracelet.
All so he would help her kill some earth-type demon beast.
In any case, he decided he might as well refuse her. He had no obligation to help her kill demon beasts...
With that thought, Ye Han said, "Senior Sister Han, it isn't that I don't want to help you. Although the Thorn Bracelet is in my hands, I still haven't refined it. How could I possibly help you?"
Of course, this was merely an excuse for a polite refusal. Ye Han had been refining the Thorn Bracelet all along. Although he had not finished, he had already refined about half of it.
To refine a treasure, one only needed to claim ownership with a drop of blood, then keep it tucked against one's chest and continuously refine it with divine sense and spell power. Once one fully controlled the formation inside the magic artifact, the refinement was complete.
Thus, while reading in the Scripture Pavilion, he kept the several magic artifacts he needed to refine tucked against his chest, slowly refining them.
After all, there were few people in the Scripture Pavilion, and its isolating formation prevented cultivators from using divine sense to scan one another for whatever they carried.
Ye Han had learned this method of refining treasures at any time from a book written by a cultivator that he happened to