Intent Devourer was a magical merit law. At the highest level, it was believed to be able to devour intents. For example, battle intent, sword intent, murderous intent…

The conversion power seen here from the Buddhist light could be considered a type of intent instead of an attack.

Thus, the scion chose Intent Devourer to deal with it instead of Force Devourer. 

The black maelstrom grew in size as it repeatedly absorbed the inextinguishable light. The latter kept on reappearing and surged towards the black maelstrom like a f...