Chapter 298

Melody Steele had been out cold for days in that strange place, only waking up when a man’s soft, familiar voice called her name. When she finally opened her eyes fully, she realized she was lying in a bed of flowers, surrounded by tall green trees. Tiny silver sparkles drifted into her mind, and as she focused, she realized they were like steps in a manual—each one unfamiliar but somehow instinctively clear. The starting point mentioned something about ‘cultivating spiritual energy.’ Spiritual energy? Wasn’t that something out of a fantasy novel? Honestly, considering she’d fallen from such a crazy height and landed without a single scratch, waking up in a mysterious place like this, it was kind of hard not to believe it. She tried to piece together what happened that day—her arm had brushed against something before she blacked out. Melody lifted her arm and looked at the bracelet on her wrist, the one her mom had given her on her wedding day. Her mom said it had once saved her life d