Chapter 495: History

Clang, clang~

At this time, a melodious and pleasant bell sound came from the sky, covering up Big Barrel Bard's wailing in an instant.

"The sound of the Tian Tian Jinzhong, the sound of the Tian Tian Jinzhong!"

"Mr. Zhang Jie and the others found the Golden City Shandora and rang the 'Light of Shandora'!"

Listening to this bell sound, which was no different from Norland's description of the Tian Tian Jinzhong's sound in "The Big Talker Norland",

Terry put down the wine glass he was wiping, extremely excited.

"I didn't expect that the legend of the Golden City was not fake!"

Other pirates also looked at each other.

"A city built entirely of gold, how huge a wealth is this?"

After confirming the existence of the Golden City, the pirates were replaced by unspeakable greed.

The pirate nature of grabbing and robbing told them, go find it, get it!

But after greed was powerlessness: not to mention Zhang Jie, one of the Shichibukai who found the Golden City,

at this time the Golden City is probably already in his pocket, snatching from such a top powerhouse is looking for death.

It's just that they don't even know the specific location of the Golden City!

The damn Black Star drove them out when he was discussing the location of the Golden City with Kuliket last night.

At this time, although they heard the bell sound of the Tian Tian Jinzhong and confirmed the search for the Golden City,

but the bell sound of the Tian Tian Jinzhong seemed to come from the edge of the sky, making them have nowhere to explore.

Unable to find the specific location, coupled with the possibility of offending a top powerhouse of the sea,

these two conditions were like a basin of cold water, extinguishing the fire of ambition and greed in the pirates' hearts.

The bell sound of the Tian Tian Jinzhong did not care about anyone's complex emotions,

and continued to complete the mission it had been given since it was forged—to spread the bell sound.

On this day, the bell sound of the Tian Tian Jinzhong rang through the sea area near Jaya Island,

letting countless residents, pirates, navigators, navy, and merchant fleets hear it.

From this moment on, on the sea, especially the people of the North Blue, already know, or are about to know,

that Mont Blanc Norland from four hundred years ago was not a big talker, he was a great explorer!

Sky Island, Kuliket was immersed in the aftertaste of the Tian Tian Jinzhong's bell sound, unable to extricate himself.

A smile also appeared on the corner of Zhang Jie's mouth: this is probably the joy of helping others.

Not caring about Kuliket and the three who were unable to extricate themselves, he walked to the other side of the Tian Tian Jinzhong's base.

Four hundred years of time allowed vines to climb all over the base built of high-strength rock and alloy.

Zhang Jie waved his hand, and the surrounding air instantly turned into invisible blades, clearing the lush vines on it.

Subsequently, the base surface, which had remained intact after four hundred years of time, with even the patterns carved on it not weathered or

worn, appeared in front of him.

Obviously, the Shandorans who built Shandora back then were also highly skilled in architecture.

He is also better at treasure hunting than other ambitious Shichibukai.

However, Zhang Jie's attention was not on it, his gaze was attracted by the stone tablet embedded in the base,

which was pitch black and inscribed with mysterious characters and patterns.

Beside it, there was also a message: I have come here, and will lead this text to the end.

Unlike the mysterious characters on the stone tablet, the message used the most widely circulated common language on the sea.

The identity of the person who left the message is also almost known to everyone on the sea,

the Pirate King, Gol D. Luo Jie, who opened the magnificent Great Pirate Era with his own death,

and left the last words "Want my treasure? If you want it, you can have it all, go find it!

I put all my treasures there!" and the One Piece (Great Secret Treasure) that made countless pirates

crazy for it!

"Is this the Poneglyph?"

Zhang Jie carefully examined the black stone tablet.

Since the Poneglyph is named "Poneglyph", it is naturally because it records correct history.

The history of the world has a blank of one hundred years between 900 years ago and 800 years ago, which is called the "Void Century".

These one hundred years involved the rise and establishment of the World Government,

and also involved the decline and demise of the regime that ruled this sea before the World Government.

This seems to involve secrets of the World Government itself that are disgraceful, and even secrets that would shake their rule,

so the World Government directly erased the history of those one hundred years, causing the Void Century.

Just like Cui Zhu killing his monarch, some people want to cover it up, naturally some people want to reveal it,

the Poneglyph is a stele cast by people who want to reveal the Void Century, recording correct history.

Zhang Jie carefully examined the characters on the Poneglyph, and only after a while did he shake his head unwillingly:

"Sure enough, I can't understand it."

The World Government not only erased the history of eight hundred years ago, but also erased the characters of eight hundred years ago together,

so even if there is a Poneglyph recording correct history in front of them, no one can understand it.

Zhang Jie, a semi-illiterate who grew up in the Totto Land territory of the Big Mom Pirates, naturally cannot understand it either.

On the entire sea, except for the World Government itself that may still retain historical and textual materials from eight hundred years ago,

only the scholars of Ohara, the "Island of Archaeologists" and "Holy Land of Scholars" that was once famous on the sea and known for its erudition, could understand it.

But the scholars of Ohara, through interpreting the "Poneglyph",

gradually touched the secret of the "Void Century" that the World Government strictly forbade researching.

More than ten years ago, in order to cover up the truth, the World Government decided to eradicate Ohara.

The World Government launched a "Buster Call", dispatching 5 Vice Admirals, including Aokiji and

Sakazuki, who were still Vice Admirals, and 10 warships to carry out indiscriminate destructive attacks on the island.

Ohara Island was completely destroyed, and its name disappeared from the map the following year.

Up to now, the only one left on the sea who can interpret the Poneglyph is Nico Robin, who is wanted by the Navy,

also from Ohara, and slandered as the "Child of the Devil".

As for Luo Jie, who did not understand ancient characters at the time and had no archaeologists proficient in ancient characters on his ship,

how did he understand this Poneglyph and leave a message similar to "I was here"?

Zhang Jie can only express that in a world like One Piece that possesses extraordinary power,

and is also developing in the direction of big muscle bullies and hot-blooded idiots,

many times knowledge can be insufficient, and ability and intuition can make up for it.

Observation Haki has three top-level applications: reading the hearts of others, predicting the future, and hearing the voice of all things.

Luo Jie, this Pirate King, is the only one Zhang Jie knows who is confirmed to possess the ability to hear the voice of all things.

It is rumored that this is an innate talent that cannot be acquired through acquired cultivation, and is even rarer than Conqueror's Haki.

It allows the user to hear the "voice" of all things in the world, including animals, natural phenomena,

and even the voices of dead objects in the conventional sense, such as Poneglyph steles. ===== CHAPTER 496 =====

Even the voices of inanimate objects in the conventional sense, such as the Poneglyph steles.