The Ancient Shu people's concerns were not without reason.
This energy was certainly excellent, and obtaining it would be a wonderful thing for our world. But there was no guarantee that someone would not develop the urge to seize it.
Great Xia would certainly never do such a thing, but what about other countries? Take that self-proclaimed "world police" that had always been at odds with Great Xia and regarded it as a thorn in its side. Hadn't they always behaved like bandits?
What was theirs was theirs, and anything good belonging to anyone else ought to be theirs too.
When the time came, they would not care about the Three Great Ancient Clans. They were far too overbearing and always thought they were number one in the world. They would definitely want to claim this energy for themselves.
Of course, they probably did not have that kind of capability yet.
But they would stir up unnecessary trouble.
Especially at such a critical time, that would indeed be a huge headache.
In truth, it was a country without roots. Its entire nation had originally been cobbled together from the scum of countries around the world. To put it bluntly, it was a mongrel.
They were simply good at scheming and shameless enough to do anything, which was how they had come this far.
"You've indeed thought this through thoroughly."
A Tai said, "We aren't afraid of trouble. We just don't want to bring unnecessary trouble to Great Xia. Of course, this energy truly amounts to nothing here. We don't have much of anything here, except for this stuff. Still, it isn't inexhaustible. If we really exploited it without restraint, it would be no different from hollowing out this planet. So even when we mine it, we do so according to