"A water serpent transforms into a jiao after five hundred years. A jiao transforms into a dragon after a thousand years. Another five hundred years turns it into a horned dragon, and a thousand more into a winged dragon."
"A Flood Dragon is not a true dragon; it is still a step away. When the rains pour down, the process of a Flood Dragon riding the floodwaters down to the East Sea is known as the 'Flood Dragon's Passage'."
"The Flood Dragon's Passage is the final step for a Flood Dragon—or other enlightened creatures like turtles and terrapins—to transform into a true dragon."
"When a Flood Dragon undergoes its 'Passage', it often triggers cataclysmic floods."
"If this happens in some remote, uninhabited part of the wilderness, it doesn't really matter."
"But if it occurs in a densely populated area, it often leads to terrible disasters, hence the saying: 'Where the jiao rides the flood, devastation spreads to all four corners'."
