Feng Xiaotian had deliberately put on that expression partly as an act, but also partly to make Lin Meng lose a little of his reason and attack him first.
The injury on his back was not isolated. It placed a heavy restriction on Feng Xiaotian's movements.
The most obvious effect was that he could not bring out his fastest speed. Facing Lin Meng, this swift Fire Leopard, he did not have absolute confidence.
Huo Yun's strike had been something even Feng Xiaotian could not dodge, so in order to reduce the damage to the minimum, the only thing he could do was move the wings on his back.
He raised the two giant wings upright, making them stand vertical to his back, and used the tips of the upright giant wing blades to clash head-on with the Crane Blade.
No matter how sharp the Crane Blade was, cutting into two giant wings several meters long would cost it a tremendous amount of kinetic energy.
Feng Xiaotian used the toughness and length of his Wind Wings to weaken the Crane Blade's damage to the greatest extent. It was precisely because of this that his back had not suffered severe cuts; most of the damage came instead from burns and the impact of the explosion.
Even so, the injuries Huo Yun had inflicted on him were completely real.
On top of that, he had wasted a large amount of Soul Power maintaining his fifth soul skill, and in order to block the impact, he had gathered a large amount of Soul Power toward his back for defense.
Taken together, these reasons had caused Feng Xiaotian's Soul Power reserves to fall to around half of his normal level.
The combination of his injuries and the drop in his Soul Power reserves made Feng