"This seemed more like some kind of key for breaking open space!" The spirits were baffled by your words, for they too had failed to see what this thing had to do with a key. Everyone present was well-traveled and knowledgeable, and they all shared a basic consensus: an item designated to break open space and connect a passage for traversal was bound to possess some distinguishing feature.
Yet they had found none of the traits such an object should have on the stone transformed from the Giant Chicken-Headed Fish, which was why they were all puzzled by your words.
You did not explain much. This time, you had not taken out the Triangular Seal, and the spirits had never seen it in Yu Yanli's hands either. It was hardly strange that they could not recognize the characteristics on the Triangular Seal that differed from other keys used to open space.
Still, you had only seen similar patterns on the Triangular Seal, so this was merely a conjecture. Whether it truly was as you imagined would require further verification. But there was one thing you could be certain of: this Strange Stone seemed to be the Giant Chicken-Headed Fish's original form. In other words, that creature with something like a rooster's comb and fish scales had actually been transformed from a stone that had gained sentience.
Even you felt nature's wicked sense of humor in the face of such intense absurdity. But if it was a creature born from a stone gaining spirituality, where had those smaller Chicken-headed Fish come from...? They could not possibly have been viviparous too, could they?
This instinctive doubt flashed through your mind for only an instant before you realized that was not the case. After all, when the Giant Chicken-Headed Fish died, it returned