"Why is that? Wasn't it enough to be rated as upper-grade to enter the Immortal Sect before?"
Even though he had always been somewhat fearful of Master Zhang, the Seventh Young Master couldn't help but complain.
Zheng Fa understood his anxiety well, looking at it from the Seventh Young Master's perspective:
You're a poor-performing student, and to prepare for an important exam, you've been working hard, studying tirelessly, aiming just to score a meager sixty points to pass.
Then, the invigilator walks into the room and announces that the rules have changed – the test no longer cares about your score, but your rank, and anyone not in the top ten... fails.
Anyone would be blown away by that.