Qin Ye raised a hand, and the entire room began to fall into darkness. Within the darkness, a burst of golden light began to slowly emerge.

Aside from Xu Chengyang's trio, other scholars, the minister of energy, and Gu Qing were the only other people present. Xu Chengyang's trio didn't make much of this, but Gu Qing and the minister of energy could extrapolate just how important a meeting this was from this lineup alone. 

No servants had been allowed to be present in the meeting. The two of them exchanged a glance and gave each other a slight nod. Didn't this entail that no one else aside from them had permission to know about the content being discussed? Was it something strictly confidential?

Before they could ponder this any further, the golden light became clearer and clearer, and the first thing to appear was a line of text that read "Discussion for the scope and widespread usage of energy resources".

Sure enough, this really was a meeting regarding the new energy resource!

All of the scholars present felt their hearts skip a beat at the sight of this line of text.

Throughout the course of history, each time a new energy resource had emerged, the arrival of a brand new era had followed. As such, it was an incredible honor to be able to participate in...