Mu Chen did not press Kong Ming for details. Instead, he changed the subject and voiced his doubts.
Just then, the fire-breathing giant ape at the head of the group suddenly let out a deep roar, its voice carrying a peculiar rhythm.
The other giant apes responded one after another and began dancing strangely around the stone monument.
Mu Chen instantly spread his Observation Haki, keenly catching the flow of energy in the air.
To his surprise, the giant apes' dance seemed to resonate with the stone monument. The words on the cube's surface began to glow faintly, and the mysterious symbols slowly started to turn.
Was this some kind of ritual?
Mu Chen rose to his feet and watched the changes around him warily.
As the dance continued, a crack suddenly opened at the base of the monument, and a hidden compartment slowly rose from within.
Mu Chen and Kong Ming exchanged a glance and reached out to open the compartment at the same time. Inside was an ancient scroll wrapped in a special material. The instant it unfurled, an image appeared before Mu Chen's eyes. In the image stood a tall man, with a huge Straw Hat man behind him at the center, surrounded by all kinds of animals, including the fire-breathing giant apes.
Holy shit, Straw Hat Joy Boy!
The first man Mu Chen thought of was Joy Boy. Though it was not the form of the Sun God Nika that he knew, a man in a Straw Hat, animals surrounding him, and this Poneglyph... if that was not Joy Boy, then something was seriously wrong. After all, Joy Boy possessed the ability to hear the voice of all things, so knowing so many animals was perfectly normal.
So that was it. The ancestors of these fire-breathing