After the Blade Demon phantom swallowed the White Light phantom's head in one bite, the deep-blue phantom began to twist, forming a vortex before finally vanishing.
Su Xiao, whose body was half-diffusing blue smoke, immediately sensed this. He closed his eyes and focused. In the past, whenever he activated the Devour Core to absorb biological energy, the Blade Demon phantom would always appear.
The Blade Demon phantom was not some sort of "external evil invasion." At the same time Su Xiao formed the Devour Core within his body, the Blade Demon phantom had appeared as well. The two seemed to be symbiotic.
Whenever Su Xiao used the Devour Core, the Blade Demon phantom would try to surge into his body. In principle, the Blade Demon phantom was merely a mass of energy. It was also drawn in by the Devour Core. If Su Xiao did not use the Devour Core, the Blade Demon phantom would never invade his body.
Therefore, it was the Devour Core that actively attracted the Blade Demon phantom, not the phantom possessing subjective consciousness and trying to seize Su Xiao's body. In truth, even if the Blade Demon phantom surged into Su Xiao's body, at worst, he would lose his mind and his consciousness would sink into a prolonged sleep. Whether he could awaken was unknown.
That was precisely why the Void races feared the Blade Demon so much. The Blade Demon acted without consciousness, made no distinction between friend and foe or good and evil, and followed behavioral principles that were largely determined by the original personality of the Shadow of Law Destruction.
Take Su Xiao, for example. If he were suppressed by the Blade Demon phantom, he might not slaughter his way through the world he was in, but he would still be an