I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

They headed straight for the center of the island.

With their feet planted on green grass, everyone's mood suddenly relaxed, their excitement subsided, and they greeted history with a relaxed attitude.

Of course, Lingling was an exception; she was only interested in whether there were any rare species to eat on the island.

The island was small; in just half an hour, the group arrived at the center of the island and saw a huge stone monument, hundreds of meters long, standing horizontally.

The stone tablet was inscribed with ancient characters, and Kurohya immediately rushed over excitedly, clutching the documents and materials.

Figo stopped and sat down on the ground in front of the stone tablet, turning around to say, "Everyone, please sit down. Let's listen to history."

So everyone sat in a circle around the stone tablet.

After stroking the stone tablet for a while as if touching his wife's skin, Kuroha noticed that everyone was looking at him, and then he said, barely suppressing his excitement, "This stone tablet must be the one that records the most things and the most history, because it starts by recording the ownership and location of twenty-five other stone tablets besides this one and the four road signs!"

He calmed his mind and, at Figo's suggestion, skipped over the marked content and translated downwards, referring to the ancient texts.

"This is a history recorded from the perspective of an ancestor. He said: The beginning of the story dates back to around the 400th year of the Haiyuan Calendar. A spaceship from the moon landed in Qinghai, and the people of Qinghai came into contact with the people from the moon."

"Indeed, our research was correct, there really are lunar people!" Kuroha exclaimed excitedly, then noticed that the marines and Figo were all watching him silently, and quickly translated for him.

"Compared to us, who were still primitive and backward at that time and could not even travel long distances, the lunar people's technology was extremely advanced. Their individual strength was not very strong, and the white wings that grew on their backs could not even be used for flying, but they were able to use gold to create strange little soldiers, create artificial life, and form a large-scale army that was invincible."

"Fortunately, they are friendly. They used technology to trade gold with us and gradually built a golden city. We, in turn, relied on their technology and developed extremely rapidly in just over a hundred years. We slowly learned about the vastness of the world, the diversity of races, and the countless countries of all sizes on the sea."

"Just as the moon people had collected enough gold and were preparing to leave, in the year 585 of the Haiyuan calendar, another group of uninvited guests landed in Qinghai."

"They are a group of space pirates. No, they don't call themselves space pirates, but 'Liberators of the Demon Race'."

Space pirates? The Marines were on edge.

Figo narrowed his eyes.

"According to them, in the vast universe, there is an exceptionally powerful and technologically advanced civilization that created a special race called the Demon Race. By using the Demon Race, they can create Devil Fruits that grant the user extremely powerful abilities after consumption. Even young children can become powerful warriors who enslave and rule other races and civilizations."

Kuroha paused briefly, his expression one of shock.

The marines all gasped in shock.

Could this be the origin of Devil Fruits?

Only Figo and Tianyue knew the truth. Figo said, "Continue translating."

Kuroha paused for a moment, then quickly said, "To create a Devil Fruit, you need to kill the corresponding Devil race. Devil races are like domesticated livestock waiting to be slaughtered; their fate is predetermined from birth."

As an intelligent race, even their creators should not have treated them this way. The various races had hated that civilization for countless years, so they united to attack their demon breeding base, stealing a large amount of data on human experiments and, most importantly, the demon mother breeding method. These data were then transported to various parts of the universe by ships disguised as space pirates.

Unable to resist the rule of that powerful civilization, they hoped that the demon race, the source of that civilization's power, would grow uncontrollably and become its greatest enemy. Their fleet had originally intended to deliver this technology to the lunar people, but since they were no longer there, they conveniently discovered the Qinghai, a region with even greater potential and no longer considered barren.

"The Moon People also know some things about the universe. They don't like that civilization. They are focused on collecting gold and creating little soldiers, but they don't want to get involved in the conflict. So they conveyed the intentions of these space pirates to several countries that have had good relations with them for the past hundred years."

"Disagreements have arisen. From barbarism to contact with technology, and then to contact with the secrets of the universe, it's all too fast for Qinghai. They even disagree on liberating the demon race."

"Among them, the most divided was Wano Country, the powerful samurai nation. At that time, Wano Country was ruled by three major families: Amezuki, Kozuki, and Shimotsuki. The head of the Kozuki family believed that it was indeed pitiful for the demon race, as an intelligent race, to be enslaved like livestock, and that they could cooperate with them."

The head of the Tianyue clan reacted fiercely, berating the head of the Guangyue clan. He argued that humans created the demon race, while the demon race was an alien race. He believed that humans should unite with each other, and how could they help an alien race attack a civilization of their own?

All eyes were on Tengetsu.

Tianyue leaned forward slightly.

"It's hard to say who's right and who's wrong." Kuroha translated the inscription on the stone tablet: "But no one could have predicted that the head of the Tengetsu clan, wanting the technology brought by the space pirates but not wanting to get involved in the conflict, would plot to attack them."

"The space pirates have advanced technology, but their individual strength is not outstanding. The head of the Tengetsu clan used Zunesha, the strongest creature protecting Wano Country, to launch a sneak attack on them, instantly injuring them severely!"

"The space pirates were furious, but they didn't know what methods the head of the Tenzuki family had used to make them direct their hatred at the Moon People. A great battle started in a muddle and ended with the Moon People's little soldiers being killed or wounded, and even the Noah spaceship, which was prepared to bring the gold back to the Moon, being destroyed and sunk to the bottom of the sea. The space pirates were almost all killed, and the battle ended in mutual destruction."

"The aliens were both severely injured, while the Qinghai people won a great victory. Feeling that their actions violated the samurai spirit, the head of the Kozuki and Shimotsuki families had no face to face the Moon People and the remaining space pirates. They ordered Zunisha to carry the remaining space pirates on its back and walk around without stopping as atonement. At the same time, they also expelled the Amezuki family from Wano Country."

"The expelled Tengetsu family drifted at sea for a period of time before landing on the Red Line. Using the technology they obtained while attacking space pirates, they established a new nation, which they named the Kingdom of God, and it developed rapidly."

Lots of information.

Was Noah originally a spaceship of the moon people?

Is this why Elephant God keeps walking?

Figo also matched up on another detail.

The Mink Tribe on Zunesha's back are descendants of the survivors of that group of space pirates. The space pirates Enel encountered on the moon who were plundering lunar ruins were also Mink Tribe members!

The Mao ethnic group is not a native ethnic group of Qinghai!

Subtle clues, foreshadowing events far in the future.

Oda is truly a master of detail.

Figo was filled with emotion.

Tian Yueshi listened with a dazed look in her eyes. As a descendant, she really couldn't comment on her ancestor's behavior.

Next, Kuroha continued translating the development of the Kingdom of Gods and the Great Kingdom with great excitement.

Using the super technology of space pirates, the Kingdom of God became the most powerful country in Qinghai in just fifty years and two generations.

Then they began to engage in human experimentation, gradually expanding their reach, attempting to create a demon race, and ultimately doing to the demon race what that cosmic civilization had done!

"I unfortunately became one of their experimental subjects for human enlargement." This translation by Kuroha also reveals that the person who left these ancient texts was Joy Boy.

What followed was not much different from what Figo saw in the images of the people and events.

There were just two more lines describing Joy Boy's feelings and comments: "At that time, I didn't know about the previous history, nor did I know what kind of race the demons were. When I first met Im, the progenitor of the demons, she was an extremely kind girl who wove a huge straw hat for me as I was dying, and it became the light in my life."

"If I had known what would happen next, I would have taken Im with me no matter what when I ran away, and made her my partner."

"But I knew in advance that by the time I had enough power to return, it would be too late."

After the extermination of the demon race, Im was rescued by the revolutionary army established by 20 kings. He went back and slaughtered the Tianyue race, but he did not give up his revenge. He killed researchers, destroyed scientific data, put on the crown and became the new king. He single-handedly caused technology to regress!

Under her tyrannical rule, the Kingdom of Gods perished at an alarming rate, until the return of Joy Boy, who had conquered the capital of the Kingdom of Gods with 20 kings, traveled the continent, made countless companions, and even met the mermaid princess, and Im was driven to the brink of despair.

"Defeated Im wept bitterly and repented, while warning that his Devil Fruit would disappear upon his death, that all Devil Fruit users would go berserk and die, and that sending a letter would attract space pirates to threaten us. The 20 Revolutionary Army leaders hesitated."

They sympathized with Im's plight, but only Nefit felt it was wrong and insisted on killing Im; the other 19, however, protected her.

“I didn’t believe Im, but I hesitated. After all, she had saved me, and I had broken my promise to her. This hesitation led to my defeat in the final battle, and I also broke my promise to the mermaid princess. I failed completely.”

"The 19 Revolutionary Army leaders and Im established the World Government on the site of the former Kingdom of God. In order to conceal Im's survival, the truth about the Devil Fruit, and their final betrayal of us 'comrades,' they actually wanted to erase the history of the Kingdom of God."

"Considering Im's final actions and Pluto's prophecy about eight hundred years later, I felt very uneasy. It just so happened that I had been paying attention to the craftsmen of the Kozuki clan of the Kingdom of God. They used special technology obtained from the Moon People to carve this part of history on a stone tablet and record it. So I commissioned them to carve this stone tablet and place it on this island that was distorted by Pluto's power."

The translation of the hundreds-of-meters-long inscription was nearing its end. Kuroha wiped the sweat from his brow and continued, "In this complex history, let time be the judge of who was right and who was wrong."

"However, I think that since you, junior, have gone through so many hardships to find this island and see this text, then the World Government must be in trouble. And your coming here means that you have begun to rebel against the World Government just like I rebelled against the Kingdom of God back then."

"Be careful of Im."

"Also, if you come from eight hundred years in the future as prophesied, I hope you can fulfill the promise I made to the mermaid princess in my stead. As for the content of the promise, perhaps you already saw it on the way here? The stone tablet on Fishman Island."

"As for the other details, they are scattered on other stone tablets. Only by collecting them can you obtain the full truth of history."

"Oh, one last thing, the name 'Kingdom of Gods' is probably modeled after the powerful civilization that created the demon race in the universe, the Civilization of Gods. The strongmen of that civilization all called themselves..."

Kuroha paused, checking the data repeatedly, before exclaiming in surprise, "He calls himself... a Celestial Dragon. I don't know why, but this name always makes me feel inexplicably uncomfortable—Joy Boy."

The translation of the stone tablet is now complete.

A deathly silence fell over the marines, each one reeling as they processed this history.

Figo suddenly laughed.

The Celestial Dragons who created the demon race?

A useless Celestial Dragon who was raised like a pig by Im?

No one would believe Im didn't do it on purpose.

This is truly...a funny thing!

Chapter 118 Our Goal is the Stars and the Sea

Some ironic and absurd historical truths were revealed to everyone, which Kuroha and the marines couldn't digest for a while.

Qinghai, a remote and isolated region, has no record of contact with other extraterrestrial beings. However, the inscription on the stone tablet indicates that as early as a thousand years ago, the people of Qinghai came into contact with two groups of extraterrestrials and were even involved in what may be a core conflict in the universe.

Demons? A race created to be tools, destined to be destroyed?

What is the origin of Devil Fruits?

Who wouldn't resist in that situation?

Figo replayed this history in his mind, and combined it with the three characters and events in Im, as if he had personally experienced it all.

Most people are actually fine.

Figo neither appreciated nor rejected the choice of the Tianyue family head. In the vast universe, there are probably no constraints or rules, so why should anyone listen to what you say? The right path is to strive to take control of one's own world's destiny. If Figo were in that position, he would also want technology without getting involved in the conflicts.

However, the head of the Tianyue family used slightly underhanded methods, which is unfortunate to the friendly people of the moon.

Of course, creating Im through extensive human experimentation after its expansion was an even more disastrous move.

Im is not wrong either. Don't advise others to be kind if you haven't experienced their suffering. Put yourself in their shoes. Who can maintain their original intention if they have experienced that pain?

Joy Boy is fine too; who could kill their savior without hesitation?

The problem lies with those 19 kings, who were fooled by Im without realizing it, and their descendants are even more foolish. Im subtly altered some historical truths for them without their knowledge, and they even took pride in the title of Celestial Dragons.

The Kozuki and Shimotsuki clans of Wano Country are also a bit strange. They discovered the expansion of the Heavenly Moon, but instead of trying to stop it, they were recording history there? And speaking of which, Zunesha is quite innocent.

I don't understand their samurai spirit.

"Lord Wang, the progenitor of the demon race who underwent the immortality surgery?" At this moment, a marine hesitated and asked, "Is he still alive?"

“She’s dead,” Figo replied. “Just over three years ago, the day before the World Conference, I went up to the Holy Land of Mary Geoise and killed her.”

The marines breathed a sigh of relief, since the progenitor of the demon race sounded like a terrifying and cunning fellow, though he was also somewhat pitiful.

"As expected of Lord Figo!"

"That's right. With Lord Push in charge, what kind of Celestial Dragons, space pirates, or demons dare to cause trouble in our Qinghai?"

"No, no, no, we need to go further! How about the name 'Space Navy'?"

"Oh! That sounds great!"

They were all optimists. Knowing the vastness of the world and that even Devil Fruits were products of other people's technology, the Marines were fearless and even set their sights on the stars and the sea!

"Grandpa Figo, there must be lots and lots of delicious food in the starry sky, right?" Lingling's mouth watered, her focus as always.