Ding Ling traveled around the southern regions several times. Unfortunately, although he saw many mountains and even met quite a few mountain gods, he never found the secret realm.
He was not a rigid or pedantic person.
After making inquiries and conducting an investigation in secret, he discovered that the Iron Palm Mountain God had terrible relations with others. He had no old friends or kin and friends, and he had lived in seclusion on Iron Palm Mountain for years without coming out. He was, in every sense, a complete shut-in!
Ding Ling decisively captured him, hoping to learn the location of the secret realm from him. Clearly, however, even the Iron Palm Mountain God did not know much about it.
In his own words:
"I'm just an ordinary mountain god who keeps to himself and guards his own little patch of land. I truly don't know exactly where the secret realms of these immortals and Buddhas are. Besides, even if I did know, without a method for entering and leaving the secret realm, I couldn't get in."
Ding Ling asked:
"Then do you know which deity knows about the secret realm?"
"Go ask Erlang Shen, the Holy Mother, or the Jade Emperor. They definitely know."
"..."
Ding Ling snapped his fingers, immediately immobilizing the mountain god and putting him into a deep sleep. Then he placed him in the deepest part of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, where he became neighbors with Lü Fang and the others.
Of course.
While he was at it, he also used a mind-confounding technique to obtain a cultivation method from him.
Mountain God Condensation Secret Art: Max Level
This method also led directly to the Loose Immortal level.
It primarily condensed the Five Elements Qi within the mountains and rivers,