Yet, he did not know. He simply built Fubo City right here.
The City Lord spent three months digging three feet deep and finally found the location of the volcano!
This volcano lay directly beneath Fubo City, and if it erupted, Fubo City would be destroyed instantly.
Here lay his 40 years of hard work, his place of prosperity, as well as where he encountered his wife, giving him a thousand and one reasons not to relocate the city.
Thus, he spared no expense in seeking exceptional individuals to resolve this urgent dilemma.
Eventually, he found a hermit named Yan Shi, who told him that originally, the binding embrace of the twin dragons of fire and water would pose no danger.
However, due to the unregulated mining of Fubo City over the years, the water had been drained out, allowing the Fire Dragon to rise in power, thus the Water Dragon could no longer restrain it.
To counterbalance the Fire Dragon, one could only divert seawater through an underground river, to strengthen the Water Dragon so it might contend with it.
The City Lord immediately took action, vigorously working on the construction of the underground river.
But during construction, they found that both the Water Dragon and Fire Dragon were extremely unstable, yet it was unknown what was keeping the two in a precarious balance.
In the end, the City Lord attributed this to the last blessing of the Dragon Guardian’s clan.
However, protection has its limits, and ultimately Fubo City could not escape its fated disaster, as the volcano indeed erupted.
The City Lord took his confidants and hid in this Treasure Cave, hoping to wait out the Fire Dragon’s rampage before emerging.
Yet, they underestimated the power of the volcanic eruption, and ultimately, everyone perished from suffocation within.
This letter served as the City Lord’s self-written epitaph.
Nevertheless, in the letter’s conclusion, the City Lord still harbored a sliver of hope for future generations.
If descendants were to find Fubo City and read this letter, they could take all the treasures from this cave on one condition: they must help him annihilate the Fire Dragon.
His channel had been designed; all that was needed was to channel the water into the Fire Dragon’s lair to extinguish it.
After reading the City Lord’s letter, Bai Junjun and Li Wenli were somewhat melancholic.
Fearfully, the City Lord did not know that his plan to reverse the flow of seawater had succeeded; yet, he did not know that often human efforts cannot contend with Mother Nature.
For how could the underground river extinguish the magma of a volcano?
Would moving a glacier over even be possible?
So, although the seawater had indeed flowed in, the volcano still remained.
Yet, unexpectedly, there was once a Foolish Old Man who removed mountains, and Jingwei who filled the sea, and now there was a Fubo City Lord who extinguished a volcano.
Regrettably, while the dream was beautiful, reality proved an insurmountable obstacle.
But Heaven does not forsake those with resolve; after waiting over a thousand years, the City Lord finally met the right person.
If Li Wenli took the Fire Spirit away, the volcano would become extinct and no longer pose any eruption risks in the future.
Of course, taking the Water Spirit along would also prevent future water disasters.
With this, the Fubo City Lord could rest in peace.
The two exchanged glances, clearer on what they needed to do next.
Bai Junjun took hold of the Luban Box and explored it again, finally discovering a second secret latch within a compartment.
She unlocked the latch, and there inside was yet another compartment.
And within this compartment lay a map.
The two spread out the map, which showed Fubo City and the layout of the underground river.
It turned out that the trench outside was originally a river, designed to prevent the spread of volcanic magma.
The underground river could be accessed through a well, and by maneuvering a boat along a small path, one could reach the gate connected to the volcano.