What does it mean that the Demon King was killed by a wheelchair?

As his consciousness gradually returned, House felt a cool liquid flow into his mouth, and along with the liquid, a warm flow entered his body.

"Ah!" He suddenly sat up in shock from the stone surface, his shirt soaked with cold sweat. Then, he saw four dark slits staring at him.

House jumped in fright: "Green...Big Brother?"

"Hey," Green flicked his hand, putting the elemental bottle back at his waist, "You did a good job, you really didn't die?"

House scanned his surroundings and found that the two were neither in the empty valley they had been in before, nor in the sea of ​​elven bones.

And there it was again, the familiar wheelchair beneath my bottom.

Touching the handle of the wheelchair, House felt a sense of relief, but he quickly realized:

"Brother Green...where are we? Where's that black snake? It..."

Green patted him on the shoulder and said in a calm tone, "It's dead. It was killed by your lightning spear. I didn't know you could use lightning prayer, and you're quite skilled at it."

Upon hearing that he had actually killed a monster of that level, House was momentarily dazed...

I really did it, and even the wheelchair under my bottom was unharmed.

After a brief moment of smug satisfaction, House looked at the straight sword at Green's waist and asked, "Brother Green... if I hadn't cleverly used my wheelchair to hit it just now, would you have saved me?"

Green chuckled, "Kid, you've got some weird tastes. Hey... come with me."

With that, Green turned around and began to lead the way, giving House a chance to take in his surroundings.

The two were currently in a tunnel, but the atmosphere here was much softer. The cave was covered with plants that glowed with a bluish-purple light, and when House passed by in his wheelchair, he left two long trails on the ground.

The cave ceiling was covered with thick, sturdy vines, and white fruits, like bright lanterns, grew on them. House stared at them blankly, wondering if these things were edible...

Green, who was walking ahead, pushed aside a few branches blocking his way with his hand. The plants growing along this road could only be described as insane.

The further they went in, the more potholes and root-like structures blocked their path, much to House's displeasure, who was in a wheelchair.

"Regarding your question," Green suddenly said, "the answer is no. I'll watch you die down there."

Green's tone was colder than liquid nitrogen; even the most heartless person could tell that he meant it sincerely and wasn't just saying it to comfort House.

House sighed dejectedly upon hearing this: "Brother Green, couldn't you at least tell me a lie at a time like this?"

Green shook his head: "I only do this out of respect for you, that's why I wouldn't lie to you. You've already mastered one of the essential techniques for victory in battle."

"What?!"

House touched his face in surprise: "Really? I've got such an awesome cheat? But I haven't felt anything at all!"

"Hahahaha!" Green said, shaking his wrist. "That's not something you can touch or see, it's a spirit!"

He turned around, tapped his head with his finger, and said, "To win, you have to be absolutely determined. No matter how desperate the situation, no matter how powerful the opponent, you must force yourself to believe you can win!"

"If you want to win consistently, you have to learn to believe in hope, kid."

House looked like he'd just eaten shit.

You damn fool, I'm fighting tooth and nail down there...

And you're telling me that your so-called secret technique is just a bowl of stupid chicken soup that even short video marketing accounts are too lazy to feed anymore...?!

Ah, Minos!

Greatly disappointed, he quipped, "Brother Green...hope is like a mother stick and an acorn—everyone's heard of it, but nobody's ever seen it." House rubbed his hands together. "It's ultimately something unreal. Can't we have something real?"

Green tilted his head: "Real? What's real?"

House was equally direct, stating bluntly, "For example... your swordsmanship, brother!"

"Oh, you mean this? Of course I'll teach you that too, but let's finish the most important thing right now."

House was immediately delighted upon hearing this: "Great! Uh, but..."

He then realized what was happening and asked, "Where are we going now?"

Green chuckled softly: "We're right below that sea of ​​bones now. At the end of this path is what you and your girlfriend have been looking for—the Elf Mother Tree."

"What!?" The wheels of the House chair jolted. "No wonder there were so many plants on this path, just like on the Dadao Road in Naxi Yin. Turns out we're close to the Mother Tree of Elves!"

Green sighed and rubbed his forehead, speechless: "What the hell is Naxi Yin's Dadao...?"

"But... wasn't there supposed to be a huge mother nest near the mother tree? I haven't seen anything there!"

"Mother Nest? Who told you that? There's no such thing. There's just a giant insect queen guarding the mother tree."

House thought to himself, "Byd, all the information provided by that crow you're raising is fake..."

"But where is that giant queen insect... I haven't seen her either?"

Green was amused by this silly question:

"Wasn't that what you just killed?"

"ha?"

House was surprised, yet secretly pleased: "But...but isn't that a snake? And it's not an insect either?"

"Who said it was a snake? It just looks like one. It's a giant black-scaled leech snail."

"What the hell...?"

Green shrugged: "Hey, names and stuff don't really matter, you know..."

He paused, gripping the straight sword at his waist, and said, "Actually, the trial goal I gave you was simply to escape from that pit, not to kill that planarian."

"And I truly never expected that you would actually kill it."

Green spoke with lavish praise, which made House a little embarrassed. He scratched the back of his head and said modestly:

"Well... I really didn't expect I could do this much; I'm quite surprised myself!"

But Green wasn't trying to encourage him with those words: "From today onwards, you can no longer have that kind of thinking."

Green's tone suddenly turned serious, as if he had become a completely different person. He turned half his face to stare at House:

"There are no such things as 'accidents,' and there are no 'what ifs.' If you win, you win; if you lose, you lose; if you live, you live; if you die, you die."

Green held up a finger in a very serious manner, like a real teacher, and said to House:

"When you face any enemy in the future, no matter how powerful they are, you must firmly believe that you can defeat them."

House's face twitched: "Isn't this just blind arrogance and overconfidence? What if we mess it up?"

"It's not arrogance, it has a completely different meaning. Actually, I know it, and you know it too. There's no such thing as a foolproof technique for victory. The key to victory... lies within yourself."

"By yourself?"

"That's right, to accomplish something special, you have to believe it's special."

As he spoke, the undead in the armor suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Their vision suddenly opened up—before them was no longer a narrow tunnel, but a huge cavern illuminated by a sapphire blue fluorescent light. Countless flowers emitting a faint glow covered the ground like living things, forming a swaying blue sea of ​​flowers. Thick, winding roots, like awakened giant pythons, surged wildly from the ground and from the surrounding rock walls, striving to converge, entwine, and climb upwards towards the center of the cavern.

At the heart of this torrent of roots, they eventually twisted and merged to form an unimaginably magnificent giant tree.

This strange mother tree, formed by countless spiraling roots, has a canopy... strictly speaking, it's not a canopy, but rather a vast and incalculable collection of roots that support the entire underground world, allowing the mother tree to transmit energy, form a barrier, and protect the forest.

On the main trunk of the mother tree grows a large, emerald-green human heart, which beats powerfully, causing the fluorescent light around the tree to flicker with each pulse.

House looked at the beating emerald heart and a sigh escaped his lips unconsciously.

"This is... the Mother Tree of the Elves."