บท 99: Over-training

Dudian still had his bow and arrows. Each pull was extremely difficult even painful but he still shot an arrow. The two servants who stood beside Dudian looked at each other in amazement. They had given him the 57th basket of the arrows. Each basket had twenty arrows in it so he had already gone past the 1000 arrow mark given by the instructor.

"Your excellency, your one thousand arrows task for today have been completed." One of the servants hesitated for a moment but interrupted Dudian's training to remind him the instructors task.

Dudian said: "I know, continue to change the arrows."

Finished the basket he continued to pull the bow to shoot.

He was too tired so he took a little rest to restore some strength and to continue to shoot.

It was eight oclock at night when Dudian's arm shook as he couldn't pull the bowstring anymore. He knew that he had to stop so he asked the young servant who was next to him: "How many arrows?"