Seeing Wushi return to normal, Ren felt much more at ease. Wushi's time ability might have seemed to defy heaven without costing him anything or causing any backlash, but it still affected his growth to some degree.
After all, no one's future had a fixed limit, nor could it be predicted. A person's future depended on how he grew in the present and on countless other changes. No one could say how strong he would ultimately become. At most, he could use his current state to project his future strength, then manifest his future self.
That was what Wushi had done. He had seemed to draw on the Time River to summon the power of his future self. But that future was only one he had projected and manifested from the person he had been in Shrouding the Heavens, combined with the completeness of the Primordial World and its many systems and Great Daos. The future self he had just manifested was effectively the Wushi who had come to the Primordial World and advanced without starting his cultivation over.
That state might have been powerful, but it could never fully escape the imprint of Shrouding the Heavens. If Wushi maintained it, it could easily shape all his later growth. He might continue developing along that path and lose the very point of starting over.
That was why Ren had told Wushi to release his time ability the moment he arrived.
Wushi was his own son. How could Ren let his child do something that would compromise his future?
Now young again, Wushi seemed untroubled by the change. He walked up to Ren in his small form and said, "Father... I didn't complete the task you gave me. I only managed to seize twenty percent of the Celestial Dipper Origin. Flame