All along the way, Hua Yao had been somewhat distracted, glancing toward the Great Cloud Dynasty from time to time.
She did not know whether her heart had truly been moved.
Or whether that fellow's strange Faith Dao had stirred something within her.
Or perhaps it was both.
But one thing she could be certain of was that she truly seemed unable to hate that fellow, unlike her second sister, whose hatred and gritted teeth were plain for all to see.
"How could this be?"
She lightly patted her chest, but even so, she could not calm the fluttering in her heart.
The three women returned to the Hundred Flowers Sect without incident.
The flying ship they rode bore the Hundred Flowers Sect's emblem, and its rank was far too high. Anyone with even a little discernment could recognize it as the exclusive vessel of the three sisters. Naturally, no one foolish enough to court death dared provoke them.
When the many female cultivators of the Hundred Flowers Sect learned that the three Supreme Elders had returned, even the current sect master personally went outside the sect to welcome them.
The sect's upper ranks were naturally overjoyed that the three ancestors had been willing to venture together into the Great Dao Spirit Realm this time.
After all, if the ancestors were willing to act and obtained any benefits from the Great Dao Spirit Realm, it would be an enormous boon to the sect's development.
For example, they might recover an immortal artifact to serve as the sect's supreme treasure.
The Hundred Flowers Sect Master, who looked like a beautiful mature woman yet possessed the temperament of a young maiden, approached the flying ship carrying the three ancestors and respectfully asked, "Three Ancestors, you have worked hard. It seems the Great