"Fire God, don't you have anything to say about what you and Tang San discussed in private back then?" Bai Chenxiang asked calmly.
Fire God looked at Ma Hongjun's icy gaze, then at Bai Chenxiang's expression, which seemed to see through everything. For a moment, shame left him unable to speak.
He wanted to say that Tang San had come to him for help, claiming it was to temper his brother.
He wanted to say that none of this was his fault, that he had not known it would lead to such consequences.
He wanted to say that he had merely helped out, that he was not the true culprit, and that they should go find Tang San instead.
He wanted to say something.
But as he looked at their eyes, Fire God's Adam's apple bobbed twice.
His mouth opened, then closed; closed, then opened again.
In the end, Fire God still failed to offer a single word of defense for himself.
Nor did he have the nerve to defend himself.
Granted, the main reason for this had been Tang San's request, and he was not primarily responsible.
But Fire God could have refused outright back then, or at least learned more before agreeing to help.
The labels of accomplice and accessory were inescapable.
The God Realm could observe the lower realms. It would not have been difficult for him to use selecting an inheritor as an excuse to see what was really happening on Douluo Continent.
Unfortunately, Fire God, hot-tempered and impatient with trouble, had not done so.
Back then, he had merely wanted to do a newly ascended God King a favor and forge a good connection.
Little had he known that he would become an accomplice in causing all of this.
Oscar, still utterly confused, sensed that