In their view, ensuring their own personal safety was of paramount importance; as for those high salaries, compared to their wealth, they were but a drop in the ocean.
Therefore, within such a group, the absence of a single bodyguard in the Ma Family naturally aroused curiosity.
But one only needed to inquire to understand that the century-old legacy of the Ma Family in Songlan City relied on martial force.
Each member of the Ma Family was a master, and even a ten-year-old child could easily defeat a professional bodyguard, not to mention some of the other elders in the family.
There were rumors that a gang of bandits from out of town, armed with heavy weaponry, had attacked the guardless Ma Residence one night. The result was a total annihilation; to this day, not a trace of them has been found. They vanished as if they had never existed, never to appear again, which shows the fearsomeness of the Ma Family.
