After Ling Ran received the mission, he started to ponder about it.
Zhang Anmin had just learned how to perform hepatectomies. Was he considered to be a novice? But if he were to determine Zhang Anmin's skill level based on the difficulty of the surgery, Zhang Anmin should already be a novice in the field of hepatectomy since he was able to complete a hepatectomy on his own.
If that were the case, it would be an arduous task to help Zhang Anmin level up to Specialist Level.
So, if Zhang Anmin had yet to achieve the Novice Level...
Ling Ran reckoned that it would still be very hard to help Zhang Anmin level up.
Hepatectomy was, after all, a difficult surgery. Even though Zhang Anmin had managed to do it once, he would have to weather through various obstacles to be able to repeat that feat.