Every house wants Jang Uk, and he picks Songrim
Cheonbugwan, Sejukwon, Jinyowon and Songrim all bid for the duel's winner; Uk asks Mu-deok where to go and joins Jeongjingak.
Jang Uk's Best Moments
Every Alchemy of Souls moment featuring Jang Uk, in story order. Played by Lee Jae-wook.
376 moments · 14h 31m · by Favseen
Moments 121–150 of 376
- 121
- 122
Jang Uk is sworn in as a mage of Songrim Jeongjingak
Uk receives the uniform, Spirit Plaque and Book of Regulations, bows to the leader and his peers, and the mages head off to party on the Jang family's tab.
- 123
Uk shows off his uniform and thanks his master
Maid Kim tells Madam Do-hwa the news while Mu-deok recalls their first meeting; Uk asks how he looks and thanks her with a crushing hug.
- 124
Park Jin chases Maid Kim with a hangover pill
Uk and Mu-deok split Master Heo's pill, and Park Jin keeps trying to hand his to Maid Kim as she walks away.
- 125
Uk defends sorcery and Master Heo explodes
Master Heo signs Uk up as a marriage candidate, then learns he wanted Naksu as a master and would use sorcery to save a life; he demands his energy back.
- 126
The Crown Prince crashes the party with a toast for Uk
To everyone's alarm, the defeated Crown Prince arrives with wine, pours Uk a gracious congratulatory drink, and gets one back.
- 127
Mu-deok is barred from following Uk into Songrim
As drunk Uk is carried in, the gate guard rules a maid cannot enter and a trainee cannot leave; Mu-deok begs to be taken along.
- 128
Yun-ok realizes her patient is the arrogant mage
Master Heo greets his granddaughter, finds the drunk patient is Uk, praises him as a genius, and leaves Yun-ok to tend the man she met before.
- 129
Mu-deok waits outside the wall, and Yul sends her home
Uk drunkenly calls for her inside; outside, Mu-deok swears she will kill him if he abandons her, and Yul carries her vow to get into Songrim.
- 130
Uk wakes up to Sun-i instead of Mu-deok
Hungover Uk asks for Mu-deok and gets the maid from the inn, learns who Yun-ok is, and Maid Kim says she reminds her of Madam Do-hwa.
- 131
Park Jin and Maid Kim's lover's quarrel, and slow-witted Dang-gu
Park Jin's logic sets off a spat with Maid Kim that everyone can read, and Dang-gu gets scolded for trying to follow Uk and Yun-ok.
- 132
Uk and Yun-ok trade names and a secret
Uk asks Yun-ok to keep the soul shifter attack quiet; she thinks he means her embarrassment, then he teases her about her grandfather's boasts.
- 133
Uk asks for Mu-deok and decides to follow the rules
The leader refuses an exception and probes whether Uk needs his maid to reach a secret master; to protect her, Uk gives in.
- 134
Maid Kim visits trainee Uk and tells him to leave Mu-deok be
Uk starts basic training under the regulations; Maid Kim beams with pride, then lists everything Mu-deok did for him and says she is better off without him.
- 135
Mu-deok realizes she is the bird egg Uk loves
Maid Kim asks who Uk loves, a woman like a single egg atop a tall tree; Mu-deok recalls the jade eggs and her rule, while Uk says he misses her.
- 136
Uk memorizes the rules, Park Jin hands him another book
Uk recites Songrim's rules from memory to win his freedom, but the leader says he only memorized them and sets a new condition.
- 137
The blank pages of Words of the Heart
Uk finds the new book empty; the others explain it only reveals itself to focused energy and mock him until Yul cuts them off.
- 138
Uk realizes he was tricked and runs away
Uk storms off feeling deceived and slips out of Songrim, asking Young Lady Heo to look the other way.
- 139
Uk and Mu-deok's stolen reunion
Mu-deok signs up as applicant 125, learns Uk sneaked home, and catches him just before he heads back; she reveals Songrim is hiring.
- 140
The Crown Prince catches Uk sneaking out
Go Won finds Uk outside Songrim; Uk bribes his silence with a honey biscuit, and the prince warns him about mages nearby.
- 141
Heo Yun-ok covers for Uk's four-hour absence
A suspicious servant barges in, but Yun-ok has been waiting in Uk's room to pretend they were together, and he slips back in time.
- 142
Master Lee reveals the book is a love letter
Master Lee says it would take a year of training, then lets slip a secret: the poem was written for a woman who could not see.
- 143
Uk unlocks Words of the Heart with Seol-ran's name
Reasoning that every love letter starts with a name, Uk learns who the poem was for, and the invisible text appears to him.
- 144
The poem plays as Mu-deok races to the finish
Seo Gyeong's poem is read over Mu-deok's water-carrying race, and an old memory pushes her on to take the last place.
- 145
Uk answers Mu-deok's unsent love letter
Mu-deok calls Seo Gyeong's letter cowardly; Uk says her trip into Songrim was her own letter and gives his reply: he missed her too.
- 146
Uk reads Mu-deok's heart by calling her name
Mu-deok tries to burn the letter and forget it, but Uk uses the trick from Words of the Heart on her and sees what she hides.
- 147
Mu-deok diagnoses Uk's longing as poison
Mu-deok says missing her is a poison whose only antidote is her; Uk lists her cruelties and vows to report every symptom.
- 148
Dang-gu convinces Uk that Mu-deok loves Yul
Dang-gu tells Uk that Mu-deok and Yul have been meeting and Yul solved her test; Uk replays his confession and dies of embarrassment.
- 149
Mu-deok cannot get Uk out of bed
On his first day Uk refuses to get up, blaming his poisoning; Mu-deok tells him his antidote is right here.
- 150
Uk sulks through every offer and blocks Mu-deok's nap
Uk turns down a sword lesson and a sapphire training mat, then lies across Mu-deok's path and refuses to move until she feels his frustration.