"Father, what are you all still hesitating for?!"
Anxiety burned inside Little Fish as she tugged at the fish clan chief's arm, shaking it petulantly as though she could shake a decision out of him.
"Little Fish, stop making a fuss. Your father has his own difficulties."
Seeing this, the stunning young matron beside them hurriedly reached out and pulled Little Fish away from her father, speaking gently.
Though her mother had drawn her to her side, Little Fish remained unconvinced. She stared at her father with wide, suspicious eyes and muttered:
"Oh, Mother, this is clearly a heaven-sent opportunity! What difficulties could there possibly be?!"
Not only Little Fish but the other young clan members looked puzzled as well. Clearly, they could not understand why the fish clan chief was so indecisive.
Just then, the fish clan chief finally let out a long sigh and explained helplessly:
"All of you are thinking far too simply. This is indeed a tremendous blessing, but it is also a tremendous calamity."
He paused, then continued:
"Although our Carp Clan is not the strongest in this Secret Realm, we are certainly not a force others dare provoke lightly.
"Yet if we leave this place and enter the outside world, our Carp Clan will probably amount to nothing, no more significant than ants by the roadside."
At that point, anyone could easily trample them and grind them beneath their feet.
The highest cultivation in their clan was only the sixth level of the Great Unity Realm. No matter how hard they worked, they could not break through that bottleneck.
By contrast, the outside world was a forest of mighty cultivators. Experts at the Great Luo Realm and above were as numerous as hairs on an ox, found everywhere.
They would probably be seized