I laughed when you talked about the martial arts scenes because just when I tried to watch this k-drama for the first time, it was one of the first "fights" shown that made me take the chapter off, personally, I'm not a fan of action sequences that seem very unrealistic.

Still I really want to give this story another chance, especially because many people I follow on social networks have been talking about this k-drama and from what little I've seen from some spoilers it seems to have a pretty interesting story, so I think I'll be writing down alchemy of souls in my to watch list and hopefully by the time I finally watch it the second part will be closer to release :D