"You're going to fight me, Jin," Jiang Feng declared, his voice ringing with a desperate challenge, "and you're going to fight me as the man I knew! You're going to fight me with a heart, or I'll cut through this ice myself and remind you what it felt like to be human!"
Liu Jin's glacial blue eyes, unblinking, met the fiery intensity in Jiang Feng's. The crystalline tear, nestled against Liu Jin's core, pulsed with a frantic, internal thrum, a dissonance against the perfect, icy stillness he projected. Emotional resonance: detected. Category: challenge. Risk assessment: low, but necessitates response to maintain sect stability and primary objective. Location: infirmary suboptimal for combat. Public arena offers controlled environment.
"The infirmary is an unsuitable combat zone," Liu Jin
