Yale's blood reacted at Yale's enlightenment creating powerful time ripples around his body.
Shirk was unable to perceive those ripples, but he felt that his body was unable to move. However, he was conscious; he felt like if the time had stopped for everything except Yale who started to transform until taking human form.
After the enlightenment, Yale's bloodline from the Zhan Clan awakened, his change of form was also due to awakening his human bloodline, but to Shirk, it was something different.
Yale's Frost Winged Wolf bloodline remained active, so for others, both bloodlines appear as if there was only one. Yale needed to suppress one on them willingly to avoid that.