Before, Zhou Bai took advantage of the monks' reports of the lies he had spread to Zi Yang, utilizing the effect of secondary transmission to reduce Zi Yang True Monarch's wisdom.
The lies of fools can reduce wisdom, something that Heaven had vaguely discovered and combined with Dire Poverty, believing that anyone who heard Zhou Bai's words or saw his writing might have their minds warped.
But the secondary transmission effect after the Fool's upgrade was too covert, too unexpected, even for Heaven to notice.
Or perhaps, even after noticing, it was hard to guard against; not hearing or seeing Zhou Bai was simple, but if this extended to anyone, meaning any spoken words or written characters could twist one's mind, it would be all the more difficult to defend against.
