The legend of the unmelting ice stone and the Soul Ejector
A Songrim elder tells a boy how a hailstone that never melted produced the Soul Ejector, plunged Daeho into war, and why Jinyowon's relics are feared.
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#ice stone
32 moments.
Songrim fears someone has unsealed the ice stone
At Songrim, the talk turns to Gwigu's origins and to the only way souls can be shifted without Hwansu: the ice stone is back in the world.
The Mirror of Longing shatters and Mu-deok breaks free
A memory of Uk carrying her up a tree, a spirit's cry about the blind girl and the ice stone, and the mirror bursts apart.
The conspirators' plan: a fake Bu-yeon for Jin Ho-gyeong
Plotters discuss the King's Star and Jang Gang's sealed ice stone, how young Bu-yeon found it, and a scheme to plant a false daughter on Jinyowon.
Master Lee on the birth under the King's Star
Discussing Uk, Master Lee recalls that Jang Gang performed the alchemy of souls twenty years ago and a child was born under the King's Star.
The ice stone and the Soul Ejectors explained
Jin Mu's courting of Jinyowon is linked to the ice stone, whose power is being used to make Soul Ejectors that grant new bodies.
The cult promises eternal life and a new mission
The cult leader preaches eternal life through the ice stone, then orders the girl who witnessed it to win over Jin Ho-gyeong and bring her there.
The Queen arrives with the 'petrified' eunuch alive
The Queen brings Eunuch Kim in, apparently unharmed, and Uk realizes the ice stone revived him, so he takes the blame and calls it all a lie.
The revived eunuch tells Jin Mu what the ice stone feels like
Brought back with the ice stone, Eunuch Kim describes being petrified, and Jin Mu suspects Uk has secretly reached Chisu.
Master Lee warns the King the ice stone has returned
Master Lee says someone is making Soul Ejectors again, and that a power able to bring chaos means someone strong enough to stop it will appear.
Jin Mu sells the Crown Prince on eternal life
Jin Mu recasts Seo Gyeong as a controller, pitches the ice stone as eternal youth for a chosen few, and says Jinyowon's returned daughter can find it.
Jin Mu offers Ho-gyeong the ice stone at a price
Ho-gyeong notices her daughter's ears are wrong; Jin Mu reveals what she did with the ice stone and offers it back if she fights Songrim.
Ho-gyeong reveals the ice stone at the Unanimous Assembly
Jinyowon's leader lists Songrim's overreach, presents her daughter, and announces the ice stone has been in Jinyowon all along.
Park Jin forbids the ice stone from leaving Songrim
Ho-gyeong claims the right to convene the assembly for Jinyowon; Songrim's leader orders his mages to stop anyone taking the stone.
The King orders someone killed to test the ice stone
To see the stone revive the dead, the King has a spell-less maid offered up for gold, and she agrees to die for the demonstration.
Mu-deok smiles as she volunteers to die
Onlookers wonder why the maid smiled agreeing to die; Jin Mu tells the Queen to seize the girl's body, and Ho-gyeong calls her 'my Bu-yeon'.
The ice stone erupts and vanishes before the assembly
The Queen insists she is not the one controlling the stone; lightning, thunder and fog follow, and the ice stone disappears from sight.
Mu-deok regains her power inside the ice stone
Brewing tea by spell, Mu-deok feels her power return and meets a voice in the stone that warns of its cost: earn one, lose the other.
Uk and the Crown Prince on what they'd do with the stone
Testing the barrier with stones, the two talk mothers, fathers and greed; Uk says he would do what Seo Gyeong did, then hits on a message plan.
Ten years ago: young Bu-yeon finds the ice stone at the lake
Flashback: a gifted girl senses the ice stone under Lake Gyeongcheondaeho, and her jealous father turns on her to seize it.
Words of the Heart is read as Seo Gyeong's love letter
Before the King, Songrim reveals the scroll is a confession to Jin Seol-ran: Seo Gyeong spared the ice stone for his dying lover, and she refused it.
Jin Ho-gyeong confesses she let Jang Gang take the ice stone
Pressed by Songrim, Jin Ho-gyeong recalls her stillborn baby and admits she opened Jinyowon to Jang Gang, losing the ice stone.
Master Lee Cheol learns the ice stone is inside Uk
Fishing with Master Lee, Uk admits the ice stone may be in him but refuses to awaken it, and asks for help if Mu-deok runs wild.
Jang Uk takes down a soul shifter living in his son's body
Jang Uk tells the brewers to duck and fights a soul shifter who taunts him that they are both monsters, then reveals he is a mage hunter.
The wraiths that swarm Jang Uk each night
Maid Kim worries over her young master, and after using the ice stone's power he is beset by wailing wraiths, the price of the sky's energy.
Jang Uk asks Park Jin if the ice stone could be removed
Hearing of Bu-yeon's lost powers, Jang Uk asks whether a priestess could extract the ice stone, even if it kills him, to finally find peace.
Jang Uk checks Bu-yeon's eyes and admits why he needs her
Jang Uk looks for a soul shifter's mark in her eyes, dodges questions about Naksu, then says he only wants her powers to deal with the ice stone.
Three days of medicine buy Bu-yeon three more days
Maid Kim says Jang Uk sat by her all night and ordered three days of medicine; Bu-yeon learns why wicked things swarm him.
Jang Uk no longer wants to die
Bu-yeon feels the ice stone's power inside him; Uk admits he no longer wants it gone, and she vows never to grant that wish.
Is Bu-yeon really Jin Seol-ran reborn?
Jin Ho-gyeong is asked why the ice stone was used to save her unborn baby, and whether that baby could have been Jin Seol-ran herself.