Night Parade · Halloween
Yang Zhen rose from an overlooked Shangyuan Sect disciple to a feared contender, mastering powerful techniques and outwitting Duan Langcai at the Youzhou Grand Assembly. After claiming the Thunder Essence Wood and giving it to Princess Changyang, he chose a body-tempering method as his reward, leaving the crowd stunned by her offer.
Yang Zhen mastered the Ancient Elephant Lightning Defense Body, astonished the cultivators at the Dao Comprehension Stele, and escaped the trial without joining a major sect. On his way to Raging Fire City, he advanced through the Foundation Establishment Realm and accepted a dangerous Long Moon Pavilion challenge, where he befriended an old tea lover.
Yang Zhen mastered Traversing the Void in Midair and won the soul trial despite challenges from rival cultivators. He entered the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, seized a Fortune Fruit from Golden Core Realm experts, and escaped their pursuit.
Yang Zhen survived the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda’s upheaval, returned to Raging Fire City, and disrupted Xiao Ji’s marriage proposal with Hua Youyue. After escaping with more treasures, he set out for the East Sea and sought passage to the Overseas Trial.
Yang Zhen used his literary talent and inventions to defeat rivals, destroy the Black Dove, and impress the Sea Pavilion with paintings that awakened powerful inscriptions. He left with Hua Youyue and provoked Luo Wuchen at Flower Moon Pavilion, where a graceful woman arrived as conflict threatened to break out.
Yang Zhen entered Great Sage Chenxue’s Mirror World, broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and claimed the Twelve Blood Refinements Profound Art before rejecting Chenxue’s Dao. After defeating two Void Refinement Realm experts and driving off another, he woke on Donglin Island and learned that Grandmaster Ma had taken the Long Moon Pavilion’s pill formula and pills.
Yang Zhen defeated Grandmaster Ma in a pill evaluation, helped the Long Moon Pavilion undercut the Donglin Pill Association, and killed two of its Void Refinement Realm experts after his mysterious Dao Rhyme emerged. He traveled to Ten Thousand Flowers Island to investigate his Emperor Mark, where restoring a blacksmith’s vitality led him to a powerful insight at the forge.
Yang Zhen built a giant centipede vessel to cross the Sea Dragon Pool, reached Emperor Island, and gained the Desolate Heaven Technique from the Emperor Mark. He then allied with the Sea Dragon Clan, exposed the human cultivators’ role in provoking them, and learned that a Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth was coming.
Yang Zhen helped Hua Youyue restore her Spirit Root, then survived her Heavenly Tribulation and killed the Flower Mountain Blessed Land elders who attacked them. After promising to collect Hua Youyue’s debt from Lin Tianli, Yang Zhen went to White Cloud Mountain, where he drew out five Spirit Wandering Realm experts and began fighting them.
Yang Zhen defeated the forces that came to White Cloud Mountain, then rushed to Evil Spirit Island after learning Hua Youyue had awakened an Ancient Bloodline and entered the Spirit Road. He endured the Supreme Mandate of Heaven’s waterfalls, reached the golden road with Shameless Cat, and left Young Master Feng preparing to follow them.
Yang Zhen claimed the Heavenly Mandate Spring and the Gen Metal True Rune Origin, killed Mo Tianya, and avenged Hua Youyue by killing Lin Tianli. His journey toward Spirit Peak stalled at Snake Road, where Mo Xueling raised the subject of the Desolate Heaven True Rune.
Yang Zhen challenged Celestial Venerable Ziwei, crossed the Spirit Peak ruins, and obtained the Earth Treasury Chapter. After joining the Fang Household’s journey to North Isle, he helped Yang Hongye reclaim her household’s standing and began restoring Hanwu City’s ancestral stele.
Yang Zhen defeated Gan Bailin in a literary contest, then followed Su Yunlan and Tian Rou to the Spirit Learning Palace and earned a place at its birthday celebration by becoming a celebrated hotpot chef. The gathering brought him face to face with Hua Youyue, while Ning Wuque learned that Yang Zhen was the palace’s head chef.
Yang Zhen humiliated Ning Wuque, defeated his challenge, and gained the Heavenly Lightning Origin before agreeing to enter the Forbidden Zone of Life with Hua Youyue. Inside, a bronze tree controlled the group, and Yang Zhen confronted the shadows it released as a giant Evil Shadow Black Taotie appeared.
Yang Zhen pursued Hua Youyue’s inheritance and broke Bone Mountain’s restriction to save her, at the cost of his own shortened life. With the Forbidden Zone collapsing and his divine soul damaged, he headed for Flower Countenance Mountain to restore himself and reunite with Hua Youyue, Mo Xueling, and Han Yan'er.
Yang Zhen survived the Heavenly Ghost tribulation and learned that the Ancient Clan was preparing an Opening Heaven ritual at the Northern Garden Ice Cavern. When he intervened to save Gu Nuoyu, he discovered that someone had altered the formation to steal the Sha Clan’s accumulated spiritual charm, and Great Saint Tianti emerged from the largest ice palace.
Yang Zhen entered Great Saint Tianti’s ice palace, seized the Fortune Stalagmite, and survived a battle to comprehend the Power of the Void and claim the palace. He left the ruins with the power seemingly seeded in his Dantian, then turned toward the upcoming flying vessel competition as the Departing Star Sect’s Megatron emerged as a threat.
Yang Zhen entered the flying vessel competition with his Iron Armor, defeated his rivals, and traded a downgraded suit to Holy Son Lin for the Ke Clan’s Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution. After cultivating the scripture and triggering a rare tribulation, Yang Zhen entered its clouds and began devouring its crimson origin as the Evil Shadow Black Taotie evolved.
Yang Zhen led the cultivators into the Mo North Abyss, where he mastered the Death Zhi and found a way into the sealed ruins. While the others faced danger at the altar, he uncovered a purple crystal mine and was pulled into a primeval realm, where he found the Desolate Heaven True Rune.
Yang Zhen absorbed the Desolate Heaven True Rune, escaped the first disaster at the altar, and entered the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice to hunt Black Puppets. After a fight with Senior Brother Lu led him to the Celestial Person Realm, Yang Zhen drew a powerful Black Puppet away from Ji Yourong and the others.