Starting with photographic memory, I've worked my way up to become a martial arts immortal.

Inside Chengfeng Study.

Jiang Yuan sat cross-legged on the ground, flipping through a book with his left hand, while his right palm was slightly bent and placed on his chin to catch the sweat that kept dripping down his face.

[Study experience points +1]

……

Inadvertently, his peripheral vision caught sight of a pair of boots.

"This is?"

Jiang Yuan looked up in confusion and saw a graceful figure standing in front of him.

The skirt reflected a white light in the sunlight, so bright that he couldn't see it clearly for a moment, but it felt very familiar.

"Brother Jiang Yuan, it really is you!"

The sounds around me were lively and melodious, like those of a golden oriole.

Jiang Yuan was startled and hurriedly scrambled to his feet, hesitatingly asking, "You are... Huang Li?"

"it's me."

As his name suggests, Jiang Yuan was able to recognize who it was just by the voice.

The woman in front of me has changed so much; she is no longer the girl who used to follow me around, always clamoring for candied hawthorns.

"It's been a year, I almost didn't recognize you! How have you been?"

Jiang Yuan smiled. It was a rare opportunity to run into someone he knew from the past, and he felt a surge of inexplicable joy welling up inside him.

After all, the two grew up together and were childhood sweethearts.

"Of course it's great, but Brother Jiang Yuan hasn't changed at all."

"It's rare to see you. Come on, let me treat you to your favorite candied hawthorn."

Jiang Yuan put away his book and took a step forward, but unexpectedly, the oriole opposite him subconsciously stepped back and even sniffed the air almost imperceptibly.

His smile froze on his face, and he stopped walking.

"Brother Jiang Yuan, I don't really want to eat this," Huang Li explained, seemingly sensing something was amiss.

"What's wrong? I remember this was your favorite before." Jiang Yuan tried his best to maintain a smile and asked in confusion.

"It's nothing. My husband buys it for me all the time. It's nothing special, and I'm tired of it."

Jiang Yuan nodded slightly.

He recalled a year ago when a seventeen-year-old boy came back excitedly from the street, holding a candied hawthorn he had just bought.

After searching around, he discovered that the girl he grew up with was missing.

He later learned that on that day, the girl had been forcibly sold by her father to a wealthy family in the city as a concubine.

He had tried to make up for the boy's small regret, but it seems he failed.

He felt sad for the boy and sorry for the girl.

"By the way, Brother Jiang Yuan, what are you doing in a place like this?"

"Read a book."

Jiang Yuan understood what the other party meant, but still answered truthfully.

The oriole looked at her with disbelief: "You can't even read."

"Just looking around blindly."

"I knew it." Huang Li frowned, looking at the book in Jiang Yuan's hand, and said, "The shopkeeper kindly invited you to rest here, so don't touch other people's things. Otherwise, you'll have to pay for it if you make a mess."

After saying that, she realized she had spoken too harshly, and softened her tone, saying, "I'm just concerned about you. It's not easy for you to earn money at the docks, so you should be careful with your spending."

"Okay, I've got it."

Looking at the man nodding blankly in front of her, Huang Li was very disappointed.

She once thought this was the man she could rely on for the rest of her life, until she saw the world and realized how naive and ridiculous her previous thoughts were.

If she marries this man, her life will be trapped in the mundane details of daily life, and she'll never be able to escape it.

Fortunately, she has now married into a wealthy family, and although her status in the household is low, it is much better than before.

"Oriole, where have you gone?" a voice called from outside.

"Husband, I'm here, I'm coming!" Huang Li hurriedly ran out, not even having time to say goodbye to Jiang Yuan.

"You can't even read, what are you going to the bookstore for?"

"I was just wandering around when I ran into a former neighbor and we chatted for a bit."

"Try to avoid contact with them in the future. They're a bunch of peasants, what's there to talk about?"

"Alright, as my husband wishes..."

The sound faded into the distance, gradually dissipating in the wind and becoming inaudible.

"Kid, is that your first love?" The old man in the shop suddenly appeared.

"I can tell you still have feelings for her."

Jiang Yuan shook his head and said seriously, "No, the boy who liked her is dead."

"What do you mean by dead or alive? You're all too young and easily swayed by emotions."

The old man shook his head, glancing furtively at Jiang Yuan, "Back in the day, I also had a few passionate romances..."

"Shopkeeper," Jiang Yuan said.

The old man rolled his eyes, a smug look creeping onto his face: "Want to hear it? Then I'll reluctantly tell you..."

"You're disturbing my reading," Jiang Yuan said, sitting cross-legged on the ground again without looking up.

"You brat, you don't appreciate kindness." The old man grumbled as he walked away.

As the pages of the book were turned, Jiang Yuan quickly regained his composure, as if the earlier incident had had no effect on him.

Gaining the last bit of experience seems to be more difficult than before.

More than half an hour later.

[Study experience points +1]

A line of misty text flashed by, and Jiang Yuan stopped turning the pages.

Name: Jiang Yuan

[Potential]: 16.9

[Skill]: Study (Perfect 1000/1000) △

【Features】: None

"Didn't you directly break through to the next stage?"

Based on his past experience, from beginner to mastery, as long as the experience points are accumulated to the maximum, a breakthrough will occur naturally. This time, however, it seems to be different.

Jiang Yuan scanned the panel and immediately noticed a triangle symbol that had appeared after the word "Study".

The triangular symbol shimmered faintly and continued to rotate, looking mysteriously strange.

"Do I need to break through manually this time?"

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan focused his gaze on the mysterious triangular symbol.

As his thoughts coalesced, a line of characters formed from mist emerged.

[The study is complete. Shall we proceed with pushing the limits?]

Sure enough!

Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up, and feeling there was nothing to hesitate about, he immediately made his choice.

next interest.

A cool sensation surged from my body, lingered for a moment in my eyes, and finally disappeared into the depths of my mind.

He shuddered, feeling as if his vision had been washed clean and his mind was clearer than ever before.

[Successfully broke through the limit, consuming 15 potential points]

Upon seeing the notification that he had successfully broken through the limit, Jiang Yuan finally understood that the slowly increasing potential each day was actually used for this purpose.

The little bit of savings I had painstakingly accumulated over the past year has now been almost entirely depleted.

I wonder what the effects will be after breaking the limit.

Jiang Yuan looked at the panel.

Name: Jiang Yuan

[Potential]: 1.9

[Skill]: Study (Limit Break 0/5000)

【Characteristic】: Photographic memory

"It really did generate the characteristic!"

"I used to think that once you mastered a skill, it would develop its own unique characteristics. Now that there are a few more steps involved, it's still the same result, even though the paths are different."

Having studied the panel for so long, he had already anticipated something, and only when his guess was confirmed did he feel relieved.

"But this photographic memory seems to overlap with the function of the control panel?"

Jiang Yuan frowned.

The panel has a built-in "Heaven rewards diligence" function, so any books you read carefully will be deeply remembered and never forgotten. What is the function of this new feature?

He walked around the bookstore, went out the door, and quickly returned to the same spot.

At this moment, a smile had already appeared on his lips.

After a brief verification, everything he saw was vividly etched into his mind. Whether he paid close attention or not, this information could appear before his eyes at any time if he wanted to.

Human memory capacity is limited, so there exists a place deep in the mind that is like a "black hole" where a lot of useless information is thrown in and disappears. However, he has the ability to retrieve memories from this "black hole" at any time.

With this feature, it is not limited to reading books, but can also be of great help in other aspects.

For example, the one that Jiang Yuan has always kept in mind.

Learn martial arts!