Songrim and Cheonbugwan clash before the king
The king considers promoting Jin Mu for killing Naksu's men; Songrim objects, and Jin Mu asks to burn Naksu's body and keep her sword.
Jin Mu
Every Alchemy of Souls moment featuring Jin Mu, in story order. Played by Jo Jae-yun.
86 moments · 3h 17m
Uk demands Naksu's sword from Jin Mu
Uk claims the sword in his father's name; Jin Mu says an ordinary man cannot even draw it, and Uk lets a pointed 'for now' hang.
Mu-deok watches her own body burn and finds the Danju
As Naksu's body burns before Cheonbugwan, she recognizes the Danju as Jin Mu and remembers the fire that took her family.
Jin Mu's secret: his master is in the king's body
Jin Mu feeds a wild soul shifter human souls, then recalls the day the king summoned him and revealed he was Jang Gang trapped inside.
The crown prince vows to crush Jang Uk
Jin Mu praises the prince's swordwork, mentions Uk's open gate and the sword he took, and the prince takes the slight personally.
Gwigu stolen from Jinyowon
News that Gwigu was stolen from Jinyowon, which only the Jin family can open, sparks a bitter exchange with the illegitimate Assistant Gwanju.
Jin Mu demands Uk's arm and baits a royal duel
Master Heo's plea backfires: Jin Mu wants Uk's sword arm cut off, then proposes an official duel with the Crown Prince.
How Naksu became Naksu
Mu-deok recalls her father, a Cheonbugwan star recorder killed by the four families, and growing up hard in Danhyanggok after following Jin Mu.
Songrim's investigation reaches Cheonbugwan
The soul shifter was a Cheonbugwan star recorder, so Jeongjingak mages search the office and ask to see its secret room.
Jin Mu's soul-shifting scheme
Jin Mu scolds a man whose soul he shifted into a powerful body, plans to move him into a eunuch next, and says it serves Her Majesty.
Ho-gyeong's half-brother offers the Crown Prince instead
The Cheonbugwan Assistant Gwanju, scorned by his half-sister, urges her to cancel Uk's marriage and promises the Crown Prince and help finding Bu-yeon.
Songrim's leader learns of Naksu's father and the King's Star
At Cheonbugwan, Songrim's leader hears that Naksu's father was a soul shifter and is shown the hidden star plate from the night Jang Uk was born.
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.
Jin Ho-gyeong still searches for her blind daughter
The Jinyowon leader recalls her missing eldest daughter, blind yet gifted with relics, and her vow to find her, while Jin Mu's secret visit is noticed.
Park Jin's autopsy demand blocked at the funeral
Park Jin wants Master Kang's body examined for sorcery before cremation; Jin Mu objects and Lady Jin sides with him.
Jin Mu dangles hope while So-i prepares to play Bu-yeon
Jin Mu tells Ho-gyeong a drowned girl may be Bu-yeon; nearby So-i studies her future family and decides to look more pitiful.
Yul forces Master Kang's body to run wild
At the cremation Park Jin has Yul pour energy into the body; it turns out to be a soul shifter, and Songrim claims the case.
Songrim battles the rogue soul shifter
Park Jin confronts Jin Mu over the cover-up, then the rampaging soul shifter fights until Cheonbugwan strikes it down.
Park Jin denies Jin Mu a honey biscuit
Jin Mu reminisces with Maid Kim about serving Jang Gang and asks to share biscuits with Uk; Park Jin refuses and sends him away.
A eunuch asks Jin Mu for a new body
A eunuch asks to be shifted into the girl posing as Bu-yeon; Jin Mu remarks on facts that still sting, like his past begging for food.
Jin Mu turns the eunuch to stone
The eunuch protests he was promised a new body, but Jin Mu makes him run wild; his men are ordered to find him before morning.
Jin Mu finds Uk hiding instead of the eunuch
Hunting the rogue eunuch, Jin Mu draws out Uk, who explains his honey-biscuit errand and introduces Mu-deok.
Jin Mu traps Uk in a barrier
Uk and Mu-deok spot the rampaging eunuch and try to escape, but Jin Mu blocks their exit and seals Uk inside a barrier.
Jin Mu feeds Mu-deok to the soul shifter
Jin Mu offers Mu-deok to the rogue eunuch as food and steps outside, leaving her to face it while Uk is trapped in the barrier.
Jin Mu hunts the hidden Jang Uk inside Cheonbugwan
Jin Mu guesses Uk is hiding rather than lost and threatens to ring the room with fire; Uk taunts him from cover.
Jang Uk's yin-and-yang jade bluff turns the tables on Jin Mu
Cornered, Uk reveals he charged the twin of the Crown Prince's jade and hid it on the petrified eunuch, so the prince is coming.
The Crown Prince storms Cheonbugwan to confront Jin Mu
The Crown Prince arrives and demands Jin Mu explain the soul shifter eunuch and why Uk and his maid were nearly killed.
The honey biscuit excuse: Park Jin covers for Uk
Park Jin offers a flimsy reason for Uk's visit, Uk accuses Jin Mu of hiding a soul shifter, and the Crown Prince orders a check on the eunuch.
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.
Mu-deok's tearful act saves Uk from Jin Mu's punishment
Park Jin apologizes and offers to fix the basin; when Jin Mu insists on punishing Uk himself, Mu-deok's wailing plea gets him released to Songrim.
Jin Mu wonders who could have opened the basin's ceiling
Alone with the broken basin, Jin Mu reasons that only a mage at Chisu could have opened it, and Uk could not have.
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.
The Queen asks Jin Mu who changed Jang Uk
The Queen blames Jin Mu for underestimating Uk; Jin Mu describes the aimless boy Uk used to be, and she tells him to find who changed him.
Songrim's laborers stall at Cheonbugwan to watch Jin Mu
Songrim's crew keeps redoing the basin repairs to stay inside, and Jin Mu probes Seo Yul about mastering Chisu.
Jin Mu shows So-i what happens to people who betray him
Jin Mu brings in the men So-i robbed, makes her watch their fate, and demands to know who else could expose her.
Jang Uk fights the palace guards to bring the dog in
Ordered to kill the 'wily beast', the guards attack Uk; Jin Mu joins in until the King orders everyone to stop.
Jin Mu feeds the Crown Prince's fear of the King's Star
Jin Mu paints Gwigu as a Songrim threat and warns a King's Star from Songrim could justify taking the throne; the Crown Prince vows not to live in fear.
The plot to move the Queen's soul into Jinyowon
Feeling Songrim closing in, the conspirators plan to bring a body into Jinyowon as its lost daughter, and to stage a funeral at the palace.
So-i finds the Jin crest she has seen before
Jin Mu's coached 'daughter' picks up a discarded handkerchief and recognises the Jinyowon crest from something Mu-deok owned.
A girl claiming to be Bu-yeon faces the doors of Jinyowon
Ho-gyeong checks the birthmark and scar on a girl brought from Cheonbugwan, then tests her at doors only Jin blood can move, and cries out for Bu-yeon.
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.
So-i turns Cho-yeon against Mu-deok
The fake Bu-yeon claims Mu-deok's energy is dark, then asks Jin Mu if the real daughter is dead and resolves to keep the secret.
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.
Jin Mu unveils the Danju of his secret order
Before his followers, Jin Mu presents the fake Bu-yeon as their Danju, then privately vows to shift into her body to serve his sister.
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.
Jang Gang comes home and remembers Jin Mu's betrayal
As Maidservant Kim waits, the Gwanju returns to Cheonbugwan and recalls sparing Jin Mu after Cho Chung's death, a choice he now regrets.
The false Queen and Jin Mu clash over the Soul Ejector
The shaman in the Queen's body wants to seize the ice stone with sorcery; Jin Mu refuses, and the two trade cruel insults about birth and power.
Shaman Choi accuses every family of hypocrisy
Cornered, the shaman says no one may call her evil: Jin Ho-gyeong let the ice stone out, Park Jin hid the truth, and Jin Mu stood by.
Her brother's last act for his sister, and Cho-yeon's cries
Jin Mu abandons the shaman, her brother tells her to flee with the last Soul Ejector, and Cho-yeon screams for her father.
Jin Mu offers the Crown Prince protection from the true King's Star
The fugitive Jin Mu finds the Crown Prince and tells him Uk is the real owner of the King's Star who will outshine him.
Jin Mu plants doubt in the Crown Prince
The Crown Prince tells Jin Mu to confess, but Jin Mu asks what he would do if Uk were secretly hiding the ice stone's power.
Jin Mu readies the divination bells
Jin Mu resolves to silence Jin U-tak and plans to send his soul shifters on a rampage to force Uk to reveal any hidden power.
Jin Mu works out who changed Uk
Jin Mu recalls how cursed Soul Ejectors can make soul shifters run wild, then hears Uk is leaving and deduces the change came with his maid.
Mu-deok hears strange bells in the market
Shopping with Uk, Mu-deok goes deaf to his calls after hearing bells, while Jin Mu watches and finds new hope in Naksu.
Jin Mu turns the Crown Prince against Uk
Jin Mu convinces the Crown Prince that Songrim and Master Lee have deceived him to protect Uk, the real King's Star.
Jin Mu awakens the assassin in Mu-deok
Calling her Naksu, Jin Mu pours his power into Mu-deok to bring hers out, knowing she will run wild.
Mu-deok runs wild in Sejukwon on the wedding day
Under Jin Mu's control, Mu-deok attacks Cho-yeon's father at Sejukwon; Dang-gu fails to stop her and Cho-yeon weeps over her father.
Jin Mu names Mu-deok as Naksu before all of Songrim
Jin Mu arrives claiming to hunt the soul shifter Naksu; news comes of the killing, and Cho-yeon confirms the assassin is Mu-deok.
Jin Mu frames Naksu and Songrim before the court
Jin Mu tells the court Naksu worked with the Choi siblings, names her as Cho Chung's daughter, and urges punishment for Songrim.
The season closes at the soul shifters' grave
Mu-deok wakes freed of the bells as Jin Mu predicts her end, while a voice tells Uk, the King's Star, that this is not his end.
Jin Mu pressures his sister to present Bu-yeon as heir
The Cheonbugwan Gwanju warns Jinyowon may lose its relics and, as her brother, tells Lady Jin to name Bu-yeon heir at the Unanimous Assembly.
The King orders Uk to hunt Naksu
Uk calls the grotesque a fiction, but Jin Mu argues people will think he still cares for Naksu, and Uk vows to catch her himself.
The trap: binding Uk with a ghost
The schemer explains how a Naksu who does not exist will haunt Uk forever and split him from Jin Bu-yeon and Jinyowon.
Jin Mu refuses to let the Crown Prince quit
Jin Mu reveals he wants the fire bird and tells the Crown Prince their pact only ends if he confesses to Uk how Naksu was used and killed.
Go Won makes Jin Mu answer for the blood parasite
Jin Mu claims the deaths settle the matter; the Crown Prince insists he must find a cure for Yul or Jang Uk will never back down.
The Unanimous Assembly turns on Jin Mu
Officials shout that Jin Mu must sacrifice himself to prevent a war; the only hope left is Lady Jin of Jinyowon.
Jin Mu kneels before his sister Ho-gyeong
The Gwanju begs Lady Jin for a cure; she mocks his fear of Jang Uk, and he threatens to drag Jinyowon down with him.
Jang Uk used Jin Mu as bait to draw out Lady Jin
Jin Mu apologises at the gate, but Uk's real target was Lady Jin; he begs her for Yul's life and tells Jin Mu killing him is not the priority.
Jang Uk warns Jin Mu to pray to the stars for Yul
After the standoff ends, Uk tells the Gwanju his own life hangs on whether Yul survives.
Jin Mu shows the Crown Prince Jang Uk's King's Star
Jin Mu reveals Uk is the late king's son with the King's Star and the Gold Plaque, and asks leave to send him far away.
Go Won and Jin Mu on weakness and the lost turtle
The Crown Prince says Uk fights only to protect others; Jin Mu calls that weakness and dismisses the missing turtle.
Ominous bird earthenware washes up in the lake
Bird-shaped earthenware panics the capital; Jin Mu admits he dumped it and plans to plant more in the canals with the Crown Prince's help.
Jin Mu strips Jinyowon of the rite dance
Jin Mu tells Ho-gyeong another family will dance at the lake's rite; she refuses Jinyowon's artifacts and invokes the plaque.
The Assembly moves to seize Jinyowon's plaque
Jin Mu and the Crown Prince charge Ho-gyeong with letting Songrim near the fire bird and point to her graying hair as proof she has weakened.
Bu-yeon stands before Jin Mu as Jinyowon's heir
Bu-yeon arrives with the plaque, refuses to surrender it, and offers to prove her returning divine powers to Jin Mu.
Jin Mu's test: retrieve the plaque from Gwido
Jin Mu throws the plaque into the sorcerers' prison Gwido; despite Ho-gyeong's fear of the wraiths, Bu-yeon promises to bring it back.
Go Won turns on Jin Mu before his followers
At the secret gathering of soul shifters, Go Won questions what happens to those who lose their bodies, then declares he stands with Jang Uk.
Uk takes on Jin Mu's 78 soul shifters
Uk traps the secret room in a barrier and fights every soul shifter, telling Jin Mu he came to do what is right, not for revenge.
Bu-yeon traps Jin Mu with an empty ice stone
In Gwido, Jin Mu thinks Bu-yeon will help him claim an ice stone, but it drains him instead, and he realises who she really is.
Jin Mu reveals where the last Soul Ejector is
The Queen finds a dying Jin Mu in Gwido, learns the last Soul Ejector is in her own blood and that he shifted her soul; he plans to leave in a new body.
Jin Mu returns to the King in a new body
The King asks whether Jin Mu still lives and is told he is looking at him; Jin Mu offers to share the ice stone's power forever.
Jin Mu returns in a new body and the Prince is stripped
Go Won learns a soul shifter in the palace is Jin Mu; the King sides with him and takes away the Crown Prince's Gold Plaque.
Jin Mu storms Jinyowon for the fire bird's egg
The Assembly's mages force their way in; Jin Mu drains Jin Ho-gyeong until Cho-yeon opens the door, and Jinyowon starts to collapse.
Park Jin refuses Jin Mu's offer to save her
Jin Mu and the King offer Park Jin the power to save Maid Kim; he admits he wants it, then vows to stop them anyway.
Uk forces the fire bird awake on the Assembly
As the mages hesitate, Uk wakes the fire bird himself and turns their own creed of power for the powerful back on them.