Ji Yao might not have grown up with his Qilin mother nor had he been exposed to any of the clan members but because of the Qilin blood running through his veins, he could still connect with his ancestry.
These talismans looked ordinary from a single glance but after studying them for a couple of seconds he could see a pattern foreign to this world. For him to fully grasp the pattern he had to engage his aether.
His seraphic energy could act like a filter translating the patterns in a way he could easily understand but the problem was the two Nocru behind him. If he so much as releases a minuscule amount of his seraphic energy the two will go bonkers like a pair of Tasmanian devils.