By the time Chen Miao finally left the deserted village, he had used a bundle and a half of Incense Sticks from his pack.
Fortunately, he had come well prepared this time.
After all, he remembered what Ge Feng had said before: there was more than one deserted village beside the river.
Since Hunchback Lin dared to do something like this, what difference did it make whether he used one deserted village or two?
Glancing back at the deserted village, Chen Miao headed into the distance without looking back again.
Partway there, Chen Miao deactivated Mirage-Escape Form and returned to the main road, pretending he had stepped away to relieve himself.
He had deactivated Shadow-Escape Form because he discovered that once he moved a certain distance away from Mirage Shadow, his Soul Power consumption suddenly surged.
That range was roughly two kilometers.
Within two kilometers, Chen Miao felt he could keep Mirage-Escape Form active for three to five hours without consuming too much Soul Power.
But that sudden surge in consumption just now made him feel he could not even last ten minutes.
Left with no choice, he had deactivated Mirage-Escape Form.
Walking along the main road, Chen Miao assessed how much Soul Power he had spent.
His Soul Power expenditure this time came mainly from two sources: Mirage-Escape Form and the Five Prisons Mark.
Including the time he had used it at Grave Mountain in Twin Bridge Town, he had maintained Mirage-Escape Form for less than an hour in total, consuming less than a tenth of his Soul Power overall.
Yet that brief period beyond the two-kilometer range had consumed nearly a tenth of his Soul Power by itself.
Thus, Mirage-Escape Form had consumed two-tenths of Chen Miao's Soul Power in total.
The rest had gone toward the Five