CHAPTER 759 OVERQUALIFIED

Mary wasn't confident in Rocky. All the interviewees looked at him like he was a joke and kept laughing

in his face. None of them believed that Rocky was the one the clan was looking for.

"Young man, what's your name?" Harry asked.

"It's Rookie," replied Rocky impassively. He looked like he wasn't affected by all the mocking stares the

people were giving him.

Meanwhile, as soon as Rocky said his name, the people around them burst into laughter.

And Mary's face broke out into a satisfied smile. She seemed to enjoy the sight of Rocky being

humiliated.

"Where do you live?" Harry continued to ask, heedless of the ruckus going on around them.

"I'm from a remote country," Rocky added.

"And your parents are..." Before Harry finished his question, Rocky chimed in, "If you want to test me,

then do so already. I think Miss Mary can't wait any longer to humiliate me."

At this statement, Harry and other beast curers looked at Mary, whose face had darkened in an

inscrutable expression. She nodded at them as if to say 'get on with it'.

"It's very important to have a solid foundation when learning the art of Beast Curing Skill, and the basic

foundation is to be able to identify the herbs and flowers that are used for healing the wounds of

different spirit-manipulated beasts. If you want to be a disciple of the Xiao Clan, you need to learn to

identify more than ten kinds of herbs first," one of the beast curers said to Rocky.

Then, a disciple of the Xiao Clan brought out ten kinds of medicinal materials from a plate and walked

up to Rocky.

He was about to show them to Rocky, but Rocky barely glanced at them and said, "You don't have to

do that."

After hearing that, Mary said, "Now you know how naive you are. You can't even recognize ten kinds of

herbs. Don't overestimate yourself." She sounded haughty and self-satisfied at that moment, as she

thought that Rocky had given up.

"Miss Mary, you misunderstood me. I said I don't want to see them, but that's because I already

recognized them," Rocky said with a small smirk. He said that on purpose since he knew that Mary

would misunderstand, and he wanted her to feel like she had won before he slapped her with the truth.

That was more satisfying for him.

Mary immediately frowned. Harry and other beast curers also looked at each other, because Rocky

didn't even take a closer look. How could he identify the ten kinds of medicinal herbs with one glance?

"Then, name all of these," Mary demanded, as she gestured to the ten herbs. Her eyes were narrowed

in suspicion at Rocky. She was convinced that he was just playing a trick and was trying to bluff his

way out of trouble.

"Maud, yarrow... Fire yellow... Shamrock..." Rocky spoke out ten names calmly.

"Miss Mary, he's right," the beast curer said to Mary, surprised.

Meanwhile, Mary couldn't hide the shock she felt. She couldn't imagine how Rocky recognized the

herbs when he didn't even look at them properly.

The interviewees around them were shocked as well since they didn't expect much from Rocky at all. It

was unthinkable for him to have recognized all herbs with one look.

Juey, who had been worried about Rocky, looked delighted.

"Miss Mary, he should be..." the beast curer who had administered the examination started to say

something, but he sounded very hesitant, no doubt afraid of Mary. In normal proceedings, if Rocky was

able to identify ten kinds of herbs, he would be qualified.

But one look at Mary's face was enough to know that she was extremely dissatisfied. "Wait a minute!"

she suddenly exclaimed, a stern frown on her face. "He was a member of the Magical Beast House, so

it is reasonable for him to recognize them.

If others are required to recognize ten kinds, he should be tested with twenty. Guards!"

At once, a disciple approached Mary, and she whispered something to him. With a nod, he hurriedly left

to fetch whatever she asked for.

On the other hand, Harry and other beast curers were confused with Mary's impromptu test, as it

wasn't a standard practice. But they could tell that she wasn't satisfied with Rocky, so they didn't say

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At the same time, Rocky studied Mary intently, aware that she had dark plans for him. He sneered

inwardly and thought, 'This woman thinks so highly of herself, it's like she doesn't understand that there

is always someone better. She thinks these tests are difficult for me, but I can recognize these ten

herbs easily, not to mention, I could name a hundred more.'

Soon, the disciple returned with another plate in his hands. This one was also covered with ten kinds of

medicinal herbs. "If you can recognize these ten kinds too, you will pass the first test," Mary said.

Upon hearing her words, Rocky turned to look at the plate. He easily identified the first few herbs but

was stunted by the last one. The last herb looked like grains of rice, only it was black and dried out. It

didn't look like any medicinal herb he knew.

Meanwhile, Mary was secretly gleeful at Rocky's silence and confused expression. She was confident

that Rocky wouldn't be successful this time, as he could never identify the last herb. She made sure of

that.

After a long silence, Rocky finally spoke. "The first one is..." He stopped after he identified the first few,

then he picked up the grain-like herb and asked, "Miss Mary, are you sure you have ten kinds of herbs

here? Why does the tenth herb look like rat shit? But I'm sure it's not your fault. Someone as good as

you couldn't have mistaken rat shit for some kind of medicine..."

Mary's face grew pale at Rocky's statement. She was furious, but she couldn't show it, because as

what Rocky had said, the tenth grade was nothing but dry rat shit. She thought she was being devious

when she included it into the mix, but he still managed to guess it correctly. And now, he was even

ridiculing her. 'How impertinent!' she thought as she fumed in silence.

Of course, if he was just an ordinary person, he would have been tricked. After all, no one would think

that Miss Mary had such evil intentions. But Rocky was expecting that Mary would deliberately cause

trouble for him, so he wasn't caught off-guard.

Mary grudgingly nodded at Harry and the other beast curers, who were looking at her expectantly.

"All right, I guess he passed the first test. Harry, come and administer the second one." As she spoke,

Mary didn't take her eyes off Rocky. Both of them stared at each other, as they waited for Harry to

speak.

Harry also realized that Mary was deliberately creating trouble for Rocky, but he could tell that Rocky

was quite skilled, as shown by his performance in the previous test. He studied Rocky for a moment

then said, "Like doctors are to human beings, one should be cautious in treating spirit-manipulated

beasts. To be a disciple of the Xiao Clan, one must understand some basic skills. Now, tell me, if there

is a spirit-manipulated beast that has a cold stomach, in addition to swallowing hard, what does that

mean?"

"Well, I remember when the old sow in my family couldn't eat, it often snored in the middle of the night,

and its voice was as loud as thunder. If the spirit-manipulated beast couldn't eat anything, does it snore

at midnight?" Rocky made a face as if he was stumped by the question, and he frowned and folded his

arms across his chest, deep in thought.