While he's pretty confident in his looks, most of his past flirtation has been met with little result, so hearing it so often, even teasingly, from Shepard, does terrible things to his ego. He clicks his tongue in a false show of irritation, preening just a tiny bit.

"Not just anyone has the potential to form a golden core and cultivate," he shakes his head, delivering a kick that flung one of his opponents into a handful of others.

"I know it's hard to believe that good looks and raw talent can co-exist," another kick, this time with a hint of laughter, "I was adopted into the Jiang clan of Yunmeng, so I studied with them first."

The foundation of his martial education was formed there, including his mastery of the six arts, and from there, it was important to round out his education by studying with the other sects, even sects as stuffy as Gusu Lan. Still, he could understand the sentiment. At his peak, he'd stood on equal ground with the legendary Hanguang Jun, and subduing a crowd of such mundane fighters like this was as easy as breathing. Here, he was just trying not to hurt anyone too badly as he tested out his strength tea.

"Biotics are a special ability from your world, then?" he asks? If it made her already brutally efficient style any more so, it had to be pretty impressive.