"To devour the gods, you need to establish more reasonable rules than 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 for yourself—a blind spot in the ancient Chinese system of gods. ”

Charlotte added Xu Fu's words,

"It's a wish, right?"

"Yes. ”

Xu Fu nodded,

"The Chinese gods have no rules for fulfilling the wishes of the prisoners, and they do it completely casually - but the result of being too casual is that the power contained in this legend cannot be condensed at all, but cannot really realize any wishes. ”

"Is it like a situation where the cowhide is blown too big, but it turns out that it can't be achieved at all?"

"It's not impossible for you to say that. ”

Xu Fu admitted with a wry smile,

"In short, my purpose in devouring the gods is for power, and it makes no sense to me if I can't gather the power to manifest the gods. ”

"So you've made more achievable rules based on the rules of the Queen Mother of the West?"

Facing Charlotte's question, Xu Fu nodded,

"Paying a huge price to get what you couldn't have asked for – that's the rule I set back then!"

"Can't ask for it?"

Charlotte scratched her head,

"It seems a bit of a logical contradiction, but if it were something that was completely logical, there wouldn't be any need for magic!, though, according to your rules-"

Charlotte laughed very presumptuously,

"Your first believer, you are not satisfied!"

"yes!"

Xu Fu's face darkened at this time,

"The First Emperor paid me a great price for immortality, but I could not repay him while he was alive. No, it should be said that even if I complete the devouring of the Queen Mother of the West while he is still alive, I will not be able to repay him. ”

"Because the living cannot live forever!"

Charlotte said in a deep voice,

"The existence of a half-ghost and half-god like you is better to say, the living cannot escape birth, old age, sickness and death. ”

"You're right!"

Xu Fu's face showed a look of chagrin,

"But at that time, I couldn't have imagined that. ”

"Just like the perpetual motion machine, immortality is also one of the several "impossible" that human beings have spent countless years finally realizing!"

Charlotte had a sarcastic smile on her face,

"In this way, there is a loophole in your rules again?—— the price paid by others, but you can't achieve it at all!"

"yes!"

Xu Fu's face became more and more gloomy,

"If you can't make your wishes, my rules aren't perfect. So, for a long time after devouring the Queen Mother of the West, my strength was weak. ”

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

"The Kunlun Mountain you are talking about is not the Kunlun Mountain in China now, right?"

Charlotte asked.

"Of course not. ”

Xu Fu looked disdainful,

"That's just the name of the later generations - the real Kunlun, but the legendary fairy mountain, the source of the Yellow River!"

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

"Yes. ”

Xu Fu did not deny it,

"In the beginning, I didn't take the initiative to move to the West, until the Arab empire of food rose—"

"The Battle of Hengross?"

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

"Did you start migrating to the West at that time?"

"Almost!"

Xu Fu nodded,

"Unable to fill the loopholes in the rules, I realized that another way to increase my power was to create my own legends and circulate them—as they spread, the legends would morph on their own, so that I could gradually fix the loopholes in my own rules. ”

"So there is the legend of the lamp god?"

"Yes. ”

Xu Fu smiled proudly,

"It should be said that the spread of my legend to the Middle East, and even to Europe, was basically accompanied by the spread and development of alchemy. So, along the way, I found a way to circumvent my own rule loopholes. ”

"The Philosopher's Stone?"

Charlotte's reaction was so fast that Xu Fu was a little surprised,

"You know me so well that I can't help but want to keep you alive. ”

"We'll talk about that later. ”

Charlotte didn't care at all,

"Indeed, such a thing as the Philosopher's Stone was originally a probability that was put forward later in the development of alchemy, and in short, it was to solve those problems that could not be achieved by alchemy. ”

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

Xu Fu said with a smile,

"Combined with the concept of the Philosopher's Stone, I have added another rule to myself - what is impossible is possible and what is impossible is possible. ”

"It's a contradictory concept!"

Charlotte sighed,

"The power of magic is often found in these contradictory notions. What about the restriction of the three wishes in "Aladdin's Magic Lamp"?"

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

"At the cost?"

Charlotte somewhat understood, just as many legends and stories will merge with each other, the legends that Xu Fu created for himself have also merged with some original stories in the Middle East......

"In the era of alchemy and the popularity of the story "Aladdin's Magic Lamp", my power can be said to be quite strong!"

Xu Fu's face had a look of remembrance,

"At that time, although I could not and could not achieve impossible requirements such as immortality, I could give conceptual things such as power and wealth to a certain extent-"

"Like Dracula's first prayer to you for "scary," right?"

"Yes. ”

Xu Fu nodded,

"It's more of a conceptual thing. ”

"Conceptual things are more about the human heart, and this can be achieved. ”

Charlotte scratched her head,

"But to a certain extent, it's because you've thrown all your unfulfilled wishes to the ethereal Philosopher's Stone, so what will happen to you when science proves that the Philosopher's Stone doesn't exist?"

"Just like you think, my strength has weakened dramatically!"

Xu Fu's face was a little regretful,

"So later, with the help of Goethe's Faust, combined with Christian mythology, I created the incarnation of Mephistopheles - this time I personally instructed people to know what wishes can be granted, and by the way, I took back their souls!"

"I see! In order to preserve your strength, you really spare no effort!"

Charlotte's eyes flickered as she looked at Xu Fu,

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

"Kill you!"

Xu Fu had a relaxed smile on his face,

"Although many of my unrealistic wishes cannot be realized, the fact that people die is very easy to realize - a small wish is enough to make life die. ”

"Really?"

Charlotte's face didn't feel threatened at all.

"And what if I make a wish to you?"

"What!?"

"Didn't you notice?"

Charlotte had a smug smile on her face,

"Soon after you appeared, I actually made a secret wish - please tell your story!"