Chatty Hollywood

"If you want to devour the gods, you need to establish rules that are more reasonable than those of the devoured gods!"

Xu Fu explained,

"The rules of the Queen Mother of the West are actually very simple. She is just a powerful deity in ancient China who holds the elixir of life. However, the problem is that under such unclear rules, the power of the gods cannot be condensed at all."

"So, when you tried to devour her, you defined new rules yourself - that happened to be a blind spot in the ancient Chinese god system."

Charlotte added to Xu Fu’s words,

"That means wish fulfillment, right?"

"Yes."

Xu Fu nodded,

"There are no rules for Chinese gods to fulfill prisoners' wishes. They are completely random - but the result of being too random is that the power contained in this legend cannot be condensed at all, and it is impossible to truly realize any wishes. .”

"Is it similar to a situation where you exaggerate too much and the result is completely unachievable?"

"It's not impossible for you to say so."

Xu Fu admitted with a wry smile,

"In short, my purpose of devouring gods is for power. Gods that cannot gather strength to manifest are meaningless to me."

"So you formulated more achievable rules based on the Queen Mother of the West's rules?"

Facing Charlotte's question, Xu Fu nodded,

"Pay a huge price to get something you couldn't ask for - this is the rule I made at the time!"

"Can't I ask for it?"

Charlotte scratched her head,

"This seems to be a bit of a logical contradiction, but if it is completely logical, there is no need for magic! However, according to your rules-"

Charlotte laughed wildly,

"You are not satisfied with your first believer!"

"yes!"

Xu Fu's face turned darker at this time,

"The First Emperor paid a huge price for me in order to live forever, but I can't give him anything in return while he's still alive. No, it should be said that even if I finish devouring the Queen Mother of the West while he's still alive, I still can't give him anything in return. He reciprocates.”

"Because living people cannot live forever!"

Charlotte said in a deep voice,

"It's okay for a half-ghost, half-god like you. Living people cannot escape birth, old age, illness, and death."

"You're right!"

Xu Fu had an annoyed expression on his face.

"But at that time, I couldn't have imagined that this was possible."

"Just like a perpetual motion machine, immortality is one of the few "impossibles" that humans have spent countless years finally realizing!"

Charlotte had a sarcastic smile on her face,

"In this case, there is another loophole in your rules, right? - People have paid the price, but you are completely unable to achieve it!"

"yes!"

Xu Fu's face became even more gloomy.

"If my wish cannot be fulfilled, my rules are not perfect. Therefore, my power was weak for a long time after devouring the Queen Mother of the West."

"At that time, I was hiding in the legendary cave of the Queen Mother of the West, Kunlun Mountain, and I have been trying to correct this mistake——"

"The Kunlun Mountains you are talking about are not the Kunlun Mountains in China today, right?"

Charlotte asked.

"of course not."

Xu Fu looked disdainful.

"That's just a name that was created by later generations - the real Kunlun is the legendary fairy mountain and the source of the Yellow River!"

"In other words, at that time, you were actually hiding in the plateau areas from western China to Central Asia?"

"Yes."

Xu Fu did not deny it.

"At the beginning, I didn't take the initiative to move to the west. It was not until the Arab food empire rose later——"

"The Battle of Perpetual Ross?"

Charlotte mentioned the only war between the Tang Empire and the Dashi Empire in history.

"Did you start migrating west around that time?"

"Roughly the same!"

Xu Fu nodded,

“When the loopholes in the rules cannot be filled,

I realized that another way to increase my own power is to create legends about myself and spread them - in the process of spreading, the legends will transform themselves, so that I can gradually repair the loopholes in my own rules. "

"So there is a legend about the djinn?"

"Yes."

Xu Fu smiled proudly,

"It should be said that the spread of my legend to the Middle East and even Europe was basically accompanied by the spread and development of alchemy. Therefore, in this process, I found a way to circumvent the loopholes in my own rules."

"Philosopher's Stone?"

Charlotte's quick reaction surprised Xu Fu.

"You know me so well that I can't help but want to save your life."

"We can talk about that later."

Charlotte didn't care at all.

"Indeed, something like the Philosopher's Stone was originally a probability proposed after the development of alchemy. To put it simply, it solves problems that cannot be achieved by alchemy."

"Like turning stones into gold, immortality, etc..."

Xu Fu smiled and said,

"Combined with the concept of the Philosopher's Stone, I added another rule to myself - impossible things, and turning the impossible into possible."

"Another contradictory concept!"

Charlotte sighed;

"The power of magic often lies in these contradictory concepts. So what about the restriction of three wishes in "Aladdin's Lamp"?"

"That's the price you have to pay in the process of integrating with local legends in the Middle East!"

"The price?"

Charlotte understood somewhat. Just like many legends and stories merged with each other, the legend Xu Fu created for himself also merged with some native stories in the Middle East...

"In an era when alchemy and the story of "Aladdin's Magic Lamp" were popular, my power can be said to be quite powerful!"

Xu Fu had a look of reminiscence on his face,

"At that time, although I was still unable to achieve impossible requests such as immortality, I could still give conceptual things such as power and wealth to a certain extent—"

"Just like Dracula first prayed to you to "make people fear", right?"

"Yes. "

Xu Fu nodded,

“It’s more of a conceptual thing.”

"Conceptual things are more about people's hearts. This can indeed be achieved."

Charlotte scratched her head,

"But to a certain extent, it's because you threw all your unfulfilled wishes to the illusory Philosopher's Stone! Then what will happen to you when science later proves that the Philosopher's Stone does not exist?"

"Just as you thought, my strength has weakened significantly again!"

Xu Fu had some regret on his face,

"So later, I used Goethe's work "Faust" and combined it with Christian mythology to create the incarnation of Mephisto - this time I personally guided people to let them know what wishes can be realized. Take back their souls by the way!"

"I see! You really went to great lengths to retain your power!"

Charlotte looked at Xu Fu with twinkling eyes,

"So, now that I know everything, what are you going to do?"

"Kill you!"

A relaxed smile appeared on Xu Fu's face,

"Although many of my unrealistic wishes cannot come true, it happens that letting people die is very easy to come true - a small wish is enough to make life disappear."

"Yeah?"

But Charlotte didn't feel threatened at all.

"What if I make a wish to you?"

"What!?"

"Didn't you notice?"

Charlotte had a proud smile on her face,

"Shortly after you appeared, I secretly made a wish - please tell your story!"

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