Yet Li Fan knew of one method that could freeze it in time completely.

After the Tianling Flowers vanished from the world, many techniques that had once been closely guarded secrets slowly began to circulate.

One of them was the Florilegium method, which used paint to seal the Tianling Flowers within a work of art.

Originally, the Florilegium method was not created specifically for the Tianling Flowers, but to capture every specimen of flower under heaven.

Its creator was a man named Zhao Chong, who loved flowers above all else.

He vowed to see every flower in existence, and set out to record them all with ink and brush.

Alas, his talent for painting was mediocre at best. The flowers he produced looked nothing like their living counterparts.

"They are a desecration of the true blossoms," he lamented.

After long deliberation, he...