Out of the ten surviving potentates, there were a few like the Ignis Potentate who hadn’t left for other lands. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to, but that it was too humiliating to flee at this time.

They were the pillars of their nations and worshiped on a daily basis by their citizens. Their people would sense it if they weren’t physically in the divine nation. Plus, hadn’t Lu Yun said that he would let bygones be bygones? They just needed to refrain from causing trouble for him in the future.

Thus, the Ignis Potentate never entertained the thought that Lu Yun would come for him first after the young man became a potentate. He suspected that the Immortal Potentate would...