Time was not something to be trifled with. Just because he could now wield the power of time did not mean he could lose his reverence for it. This power was fundamentally different from all others.
Of course, considering this was a pruned world, he could use the spacetime magecraft of Water Mirror Magic to alter the past. But if he did that, everything he had done before would be wasted. Not to mention him—even a Saint had no way of changing every tragedy across endless spacetime and countless timelines.
Besides, while he admitted that his talents did not measure up to the grand ambitions of certain emperors, he surpassed them in knowledge and power. He believed he could do better than them, truly making the nation prosperous and its people strong.
There was also the issue of which period to alter if he wanted to change the past. That alone was a troublesome question. Furthermore, for Shen Fei, the point in time when he entered a given world was his present. Even if he changed the past, he would still return to the present. According to quantum theory, the present was his point of observation.
Many people wielded the power of time, such as certain gods. They too could travel into the past through time, yet they likewise had to return to the present.
"Changing anything might be difficult, but bringing a few people back shouldn't be a problem. It's a good chance to run an experiment too."
Of course, since he had come to the past through Water Mirror Magic, Shen Fei was not going to do nothing. He was short on people right now. He could not casually take away those who were still alive, but those on the verge of death were different. For example, Zhou