"Aiya, I'm done for this time. I drew the seventh group, and I heard that the seeded elite in that group is Sima Wen Dong. He's the strongest member in his generation of the Sima Clan of Da Yuan City, and he's already reached the seventh layer of Element Gathering Tier," Liu Dong sighed, shaking his head.
"I'm worse off. I'm in the first group, and the seeded elite of my group is the Fourth Prince. I really don't have a sliver of hope left now!" Zhu Xue Yi sighed similarly, but she quickly became excited, and said, "But it's possible that Li Hao may advance and obtain a spot to enroll in the academy!"
Ling Han glanced over at Li Hao. Within this time of over a month, he had managed to reach the late period of the third layer of Element Gathering Tier. This, of course, was due to the effects of the three Transcending Origin Pills he had taken.
[1] ED/N: So in the end, Ling Han not fighting against stronger opponents thing from the previous chapter had two meanings: firstly, that the top 50 would battle it out once their identities were confirmed in the first half of the tournament, and secondly, that there are fifty groups, and there are ten groups fighting at each moment, so groups 1-10 first, then groups 11-20 etc., so since MC is in the 40th group, then it's clear why he has to wait.