An Evolver's Combat Specialization had no proficiency bar, either. Once they grasped it, they advanced to the next level.
Awakened had far more of their abilities quantified. Their battle specialties required accumulated proficiency to level up; a talented Awakened simply gained proficiency faster. That was all.
But if an Evolver had enough talent in a Combat Specialization, they could even jump three levels at once.
Bai Xiaowen's Meditation Specialization and Li Shuyi's Swordsmanship Specialization, for instance, had both leaped straight to Novice Tier level 3 the moment they grasped them. That was talent in action—though Bai Xiaowen was more gifted at Meditation Specialization. Li Shuyi's three-level leap was partly thanks to the Heaven-Hiding Sword Art, while Bai Xiaowen had made his leap entirely on his own.
For the next two months, Bai Xiaowen and his companions threw themselves into another round of hard training.
Zhen Mi took charge of integrating the fief.
If she had been the Zhen Mi of pure history or Romance of the Three Kingdoms, she would have been a sheltered young woman. Despite her reputation for virtue, she certainly would not have been capable of managing a fief.
But the many Three Kingdoms management simulations, war strategy games, and hack-and-slash games of the Common Era had changed how people viewed the women of the Three Kingdoms. Zhen Mi, who came from a Spirit Realm Plane, naturally possessed keen political instincts and managerial talent. She had already shown as much during Bai Xiaowen's Grand Unification of the Three Kingdoms Plane.
(Tip: In Heroes of the Three Kingdoms, Zhen Mi's starting intelligence was 82, higher than that of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, or Zhang Fei.)
After Bai Xiaowen took her on as a Follower, Zhen Mi used her exceptional intelligence to absorb a wealth of knowledge and learned