Not only the Hammergust family, but the disciples of other great families and sects were able to form into teams; however, they were not as lucky as the Hammergust family because they were able to meet only half or more than half of their fellow disciples.
Just like Ajax expected, the one who truly suffered a lot was the participants from the low-level families.
Participants for low-level families thought of joining together to fight against the disciples from the powerful families; however, the strongest disciples from the top powers had already broken through to the elite general realm with the help of resources from their backers from other provinces.
As for the other disciples from the top powers, they also had high cultivations of level 5 general realm and above.