Yang Ren was a character from the classic Ming Dynasty novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. A high-ranking official within the Shang Dynasty; Yang Ren held the title of Grand Counselor. After Jiang Ziya committed 'suicide' so that he could quietly retire from the increasingly corrupt Shang court; Yang Ren became suspicious and began to investigate the matter.

Taking what he had learned to King Zhou of Shang; his logic and conclusions angered the king; who immediately demanded Yang Ren's eyes be gouged out as punishment. After his eyes were removed; Yang Ren lay on the floor in shock and horror; covered in his own blood; and would have bled out had the 'superiorman' Insouciant of Mount Green Top; Purple Cave not intervened. With his 輊llow Kerchiefed Genie; he blew on Yang Ren's eyes sockets and gifted him with a pair of hands that had eyes within their palms.

Declaring that Yang Ren's fate was not to end here and that the will of heaven still had plans for him; Insouciant took Yang Ren under his wing as his disciple. Yang Ren would eventually be deified at the end of the novel as the deity of Jiazi Taisui Shen.