How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

"Disappeared suddenly? What does that mean? Has someone intervened?"

Where was the last place you were seen?

"I see, I understand. Please don't rush, I'll find a professional..."

"Phew, that's strange..."

Elder Huo Le looked at the message that came in and waved his hand to mute the chaotic sounds in the communication spirit stone group chat mode.

After thinking for a moment, Huo Le took out another communication spirit stone.

Although I really didn't want to bother him again, this was, after all, a task assigned by my master. If I messed it up, he might come back and beat me up one day.

Huo Le thought of his master and couldn't help but shudder, no longer hesitating.

"Hello? Xiao Li, oh no, hello, is this the Sect Master?"

Ah yes, yes, you're so clever, so very clever. I do have something to discuss with you, haha…

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 405 In the past, the days were slower, carriages, horses, and mail were slower, and a lifetime was only enough to love one person.

"Huh? No offense, but it's Elder Huo Le again?"

In Yao Qingkong's room at the Medicine King Sect, Hong Li took out a communication spirit stone and looked at Elder Huo Le, who was chuckling awkwardly on the screen. A row of black lines appeared on her forehead, and she couldn't help but complain.

"Didn't you say before that you wouldn't bother us much anymore? How long has that promise even lasted..."

"I said……"

Hong Li couldn't help but show a suspicious look, and said warily, "Elder Huo Le, you don't have some trouble you can't solve again, so you've come to me to be your tool?"

"Hahaha, how could this be? How could this be!"

Huo Le awkwardly wiped the sweat from his brow, then, quick-witted, forced a smile and said, "Well, isn't today your Xiao Yang's birthday? I just wanted to call and wish him a happy birthday!"

"Huh? Now, congratulations on your birthday..."

Hongli turned her head expressionlessly to look at the twilight outside the window, then turned to Elder Huole, and said with a forced smile, "Keep making things up. I've never heard of any birthday wishes being sent at the very end of the day..."

Is a birthday greeting that's so late even considered a birthday greeting?

"Hmph, you should know I sent Hei Yang my birthday wishes right after midnight!"

"Oh, Xiao Li, you've gone too far..."

Elder Huo Le's face darkened, and he said helplessly, "Given your relationship with Xiao Yang and your advantageous position, who says your birthday wishes can be faster than yours?"

"Besides, it's not over yet! There's still more than a quarter of the day left, so why isn't it a birthday greeting? It's not that late!"

Elder Huo Le sighed, looking exhausted.

"After all, Xiaoli, you should know how much work I do every day..."

Elder Huo Le stretched out his fingers and counted on his fingers: "Think about it, I have to research the teleportation array to make it capable of carrying people, I have to upgrade the communication spirit stones again and again to reduce costs, and I also have to promote and popularize inventions that benefit the people..."

In addition, there are some administrative affairs of the Five Elements Sect.

As you know, although I have stepped down from my position as elder, I am troubled by the lack of a successor. In addition, Senior Brother Yin Zisheng is disloyal and ran away without saying a word, and the sect leader usually doesn't care about anything...

This makes my resignation feel like a sham; whenever something happens in the Fire Department or even the entire Five Elements Sect, they still come to me first!

"It's so bitter—"

Elder Huole sighed deeply, looking utterly dejected.

"I'm so old and I can't even retire, while some people not even twenty have already avoided hundreds of years of detours and are living a leisurely life at home. My heart just sinks..."

"Oh, who are you implying here?"

Hong Li couldn't help but complain. She hummed and muttered under her breath, "Besides, when Elder Shui Ran gave me the sect leader token, he said he wanted me to be an honorary sect leader in name only. It's not the same as what you said, Elder Huo Le!"

"Ah this!"

Huo Le was shocked and his voice trembled.

"Could it be, could it be that you, Xiao Li, are you really going to sever ties with the Five Elements Sect, where you once cried and laughed, with the sect that holds so many memories for you? How could you...?"

"Stop, stop, stop! How did it suddenly turn into a melodrama! Loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, huh!"

Hongli was about to loudly condemn Elder Huole's despicable behavior, but when she glanced at Yao Qingkong and Xingyun watching from the sidelines, she sighed and decided to give the old man some face that he himself was no longer willing to accept, so she lowered her tone.

"Elder Huo Le, you can't morally blackmail me like that!"

Hongli snorted and said, "If you insist on talking about these things, then I should have a word with you about them."

Think of those disciples who were captured by the Heavenly Gate, think of how I once single-handedly, without a horse or a horse, ran to the Northwest Sea with only a spear and rescued several elders and a bunch of fellow disciples, thwarting the alien race's conspiracy.

Then think about how I saved the Tulou Elder, and how I saved Yinzi Sheng's wife Yao Qingkong, and so on.

How can I, Hong Mouli, be accused of being ungrateful? Humph!

"Ah this..."

Elder Huo Le said with a sorrowful expression, "It's begun, it's begun. The reckoning has started. It really is time to begin the division. Is my Five Elements Sect...?"

"I hung up..."

Hong Li calmly retrieved the communication spirit stone.

"Hey, wait, wait!"

Elder Huo Le quickly tried to dissuade him, smiling awkwardly as he said, "Well, I was just joking with you, Xiao Li. Why are you getting so worked up?"

"Who's in a hurry? I just wanted to hang up on your communication, Elder."

Hongli said quietly, "But we always need to find a reason to lash out!"

Huo Le: "..."

"Ahem, please let me finish what I have to say before you decide, okay?"

Elder Huo Le rubbed his temples and sighed, "If this matter hadn't been truly of great importance, I wouldn't have bothered you, Xiao Li."

"uh-huh?"

Hongli glanced furtively at Xingyun, who was still clueless and oblivious to the situation, then looked back at Elder Huole and said quietly, "Let me guess, something's wrong with the World Fragment matter, isn't it?"

"Ah this..."

Huo Le chuckled awkwardly, "As expected of the sect leader, you're quite clever..."

"After all, apart from this big incident, there hasn't been anything else recently..."

Hong Li muttered to herself, "If you guys manage to pull off something just as big as this in such a short time, I might start to wonder if our cultivation world in the Soaring Realm is doomed."

Huo Le: "..."

"Actually, although there is indeed a bit of a talent gap right now, they have protected our world for so long, they still have some skills..."

Huo Le coughed twice, embarrassed, and argued, "If it really involves serious injury, and we need to use the power of an entire sect, we should be able to resolve this matter..."

"Okay, go and take care of it! I knew you guys could do it!"

Hong Li smiled, looking pleased.

Huo Le: "???"

"Just kidding."

Hong Li shrugged and sighed, "Tell me, what happened? How is that world fragment now? How did it go wrong?"

"Uh, about that..."

Huo Le said with a strange expression, "Actually, I don't quite know what happened either. It was just that suddenly, I had been sensing the fragment getting closer and closer, but not long ago, I found that the fragment suddenly disappeared from my perception..."

"Ok?"

Hong Li raised an eyebrow: "Disappeared? Can't be sensed?"

"uh-huh."

Huo Le helplessly shrugged: "You know, for this event, not only will our Five Elements Sect go to explore the World Fragments, but we've also invited the Seeking Immortality Dao Sect and the Boundless Sword Sect to explore together."

Perceiving the fragmented world was something that all of us, a dozen or so Nascent Soul stage cultivators, did together, and we could sense it very clearly before.

As a result, starting just now, even when we acted together, we couldn't sense the other's presence anymore.

"Hmm, is that so..."

Hong Li became slightly intrigued and pondered, "Could it be that the fragments have already arrived, and then decided to blend in with the locals, changed into friendly uniforms, and secretly went into hiding?"

Huo Le: "..."

"I think……"

Huo Le muttered to himself, "A large fragment that can cause a slight tremor in the Aoyou Realm just by moving might not be as agile as Xiao Li said."

"Then who stole it!"

Hong Li's eyes revealed a wise and confident look as she made this judgment.

"..."

Huo Le paused for a moment, then whispered, "The last place I sensed before disappearing was in the southwest of the Soaring Realm, near your Five-Colored City..."