Zhou Xuan thought that the flaw in Mr. Dai lay in his physique.
For over thirty years, Mr. Dai had been getting thinner every year—indicating that the spectral entity within him was exceedingly gluttonous, with its favorite food being human spiritual essence.
*Children have the most abundant spiritual essence.*
*Spiritual essence cannot be simply extracted from the human body.*
As the spectral entity's "foot," after Mr. Dai digested a child's body, the remaining pure spiritual essence was like a peeled fruit, ready for the spectral entity to indulge.
The spectral entity was voracious, and Mr. Dai's appetite needed to match. If he didn't eat, the spectral entity would starve.
So his food intake had to be extensive.
*How could he get thinner by eating so much for so long?*
In Zhou Xuan's view, the era of the Big Belly Monk was when Mr. Dai best fit his "as a foot" persona.
"So, Mr. Dai, to be precise, wasn't the spectral entity's foot, but a discarded foot."
