#mu deok

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So I was disappointed at first with the switch of female lead in part two of Alchemy of Souls, but I am kinda viewing it as a new interest even though I miss Mu Deok, I am living for unhinged Jang Uk and giggling every time his face comes on the screeeeen obsessed so mostly watching for him now and my sad baby boy Seo Yul but also the Crown Prince

This was really the right first show to watch to get into kdramas, I am excited to enter this world

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Everyone fighting over where Jang Uk should train:

Jang Uk: all of those are great options but first let me ask my wife master

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The Crown Prince when Mu deok said she won't serve him:

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Nobody:

Nobody at all:

Jang Uk: my beautiful terrible cruel master if you stand this close to me I'm gonna kiss you and fall in love

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Naksu as Mu deok: 😡👿🙎🏼‍♀️🗡️

Naksu as Jin Bu-yeon: 🥰💕🌈✨🌸

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“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” 

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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Just finished watching Alchemy of Souls :') and would like to rate this series a solid 4/5 which starred by Lee Jae Wook, Jung So Min and Go Youn Jung. I was never a fan of traditional style dramas but I never expected that this drama can pull this one of a kind genre along with scifi <3. Have many thoughts about the 2 seasons but I just want to highlight several things on each for those:

Season 1 was full of intense and plot twist and even though the sole reason why I watched this drama is the chemistry of Jang Uk and Mu Deok, never thought I would fall in love with fantasy and magic because of them.

The figurative language they use when it comes to their feelings with each other is soooo angst coded and type of enemies to lovers coded ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ!! Like, guys I can do this all day—watch them how they'll argue, show how they deeply. insanely. profoundly! INLOVE! Although this season did not really focus on romance (which my type of genre I love the most), I still love them (omg I miss them now ;() Another thing! I love the side stories of the season specially Park Jin and Maidservant Kim :') A slow witted X coquette kind of trope hahaha (girl, i made it up :|) I even love other characters specially Seo Yul and The Crown Prince (protect these two pls.) They're just one of the green trees in a green forest <33 I am actually thinking that if these two will die girl I'M OUT. To you Sang Ho, well, boy you played well (Thank God you weren't killed).

Here we go on Season 2 which the romance took place (I didn't like or dislike that either). Most of the watchers didn't like the 2nd season for different reasons. And the popular one is that the female lead was changed which in fact was really casted for that (watch the S1 pls.) I get it, I understand why Bu Yeon was like that during S2 (idontwanttospoilyouanythingsogojustwatchhahaha). There are times and scenes which I think, “Well, this is very Mu Deok (the one in S1)” but maybe we just miss how So Min, who portrayed Mu Deok gave the vibes and personality of Mu Deok/Naksu. Well, I appreciate how Naksu played significantly in this drama but during my dramarathon, I always pitied with real Bu Yeon (like this young lady didn't even have a great life and was just used all the time) but then when I watched the remaining episodes, I realized a few things (which made sense why Hong Sisters never highlighted the importance of our best girl Bu Yeon)

And to be honest this season also gave me the feeling of a roller coaster ride (sometimes).

As this was made by Hong Sisters, I already knew that this would be a tragic and entertaining at the same time (Kudos to HS u did it once again!). Overall, the cast and production did well to make this series incredible and deserved to have great ratings as well.

what about you? what are your thoughts on this drama?

you can share down on the comment section and we can have a talk about it (i wish i still remember everything i think i just love yul that's all >_<)

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The actual truth about Alchemy of souls

Many people are still confused about it so let me clear it.

Naksu/Cho yeong are the same person and is one soul. Cho yeong after her parents got killed became an assassin named Naksu.

Mu deok/Jin bu yeon (Jin seol ran's reincarnation) are the same person and is one soul. Jin bu yeon heir of Jinyowon got seperated from her mother and got adopted by an old lady in a village and got the name mu deok.

Naksu performed Alchemy of soul spell to shift souls with Mu deok unaware of her identity. She was able to shift her soul in my deok's body but couldn't make mu deok's soul leave the body.

Then Mu deok continued to use Naksu's energy to her advantage result of which was Naksu was able to see. The reason why Naksu wasn't able to use her powers was explained by Jin cho Yeon in an episode briefly. I think it was a conversation between Jin cho Yeon and mu deok when Jin cho Yeon was staying at Jang UK's house after she and park dang gu got caught dating. She told my deok that strong powerful priestess are unbeatable as they can lock away someone's energy or use it for them or completely destroy it.

The reason why mu deok started killing people was not because she was a soul shifter but because she was fed bell potion which helped Jin mu control her.

After naksu jumped in the lake with mu deok's body and Jinyowon retrieved it Master Lee cured it and in doing so Jin bu yeon aka mu deok used Naksu's energy which in turn changed her face to original naksu face as a result of using too much of her energy.

Why Master Lee never turned as other soul shifter is also a popular question? That was because there were two ways of changing souls. Alchemy of souls which was black magic and thus banned. The second was by Hwansu the highest level a mage can reach where the soul can be shifted with only someone who has already died(probably as it wasn't considered black magic) so people who did Alchemy of souls went berserk but people performing Hwansu weren't affected