From the perspective of value, the unknown Greenish-gray Bronze Mirror was worth doing this for. You simply did not trust the witch tribe with it. Even if the mirror regained its spirituality without an artifact spirit and was inferior to a normal Eighth-ring Creation Dao Treasure, they would still be tempted.
The best method was to find a way to trade the Taiyi Awakening Spirit Secret Method from the witch tribe, while exchanging only the materials with Houtu. As long as she did not know what treasure you wished to restore to spirituality, she would be less likely to harbor greed. As for whether to dismantle this artifact without an artifact spirit into materials afterward, you would need to study it first. Only after determining the information about those materials and whether they were of some use to you would it be worth considering.
Having become the holder of the Primordial Qi of Time Sequence, you would have much more to do in the future: collecting temporal spiritual essence to satisfy the Primordial Qi of Time Sequence. You could also, like those who had held it before, give others around you a chance to enter the Time Ancestral Land. Entering the Time Ancestral Land was itself a tremendous opportunity. How many treasures one obtained there, or how good those treasures were, were secondary. The key was surviving and receiving the final assessment reward.
As long as one could come out alive, even a third-grade assessment like Qin Huang's would yield rewards that could not only enhance the effects of treasures used to break through to the Imperial Realm, but also improve one's mastery of Dao Fruits and authorities. While directly raising one's strength, it would also broaden the road ahead after breaking through to the Immortal Emperor Realm. This was