Geniuses were naturally hard to find, especially since Wang Zhao specifically wanted Soul Masters somehow connected to "dragons."
Oh, and female.
It was like looking for a needle in the sea.
Even with the Dragon Transformation Pool and top-grade Martial Soul Transformation Pills in hand, if Wang Zhao wanted to cultivate a super genius capable of crushing the Shrek Seven Monsters from the original story, she at least had to be a minor genius to begin with.
Tian Yue aside, people like Meng Yiran and Dugu Yan might have been easily defeated small fry before Tang San in the original story, but once they matured, which one of them would not become a major figure capable of shaking an entire region?
Of course, Wang Zhao had considered setting aside his compulsiveness and trying to recruit male Soul Masters for the final two team slots. For example, Huo Wushuang from Blazing Fire Academy, who had appeared in the original story. He was Huo Wu's older brother, and his Martial Soul was the Unicorn Blazing Dragon.
He was quite suitable.
However, Wang Zhao had recently learned that Huo Wushuang had awakened his Martial Soul years ago and was already well-known, praised as "the future pillar of Blazing Fire Academy."
Unless he openly invited him to join Latent Dragon Academy, it would be far too conspicuous and arouse suspicion if he tried to change his name and identity as easily as Tian Yue had after her Martial Soul transformed, then quietly become a member of the Seven Dragon Maidens team.
In the end, Wang Zhao found it too troublesome—or perhaps for other reasons—and gave up on choosing Huo Wushuang. Along with that, he abandoned the idea of allowing male Soul Masters to join the Seven Dragon Maidens team.
The continent was so vast.