Just like before, Thunder Drake's only reply to their words was to beat them some more. When he was done with them, their bodies had shattered into a pile of precious rocks with two milky white cores at the center.
These circumstances didn't mean that the gem kings were dead. It only meant that the two gem kings had lost their bodies.
The two gem kings are still alive because their cores, where their consciousness resides, are still intact. As long as their cores are safe, they can always reform their bodies.
All they need right now is time for the milky cores to sink into the ground and germinate a new body using the nutrients in the ground. This body will be a weak body equivalent to the body of a baby. So all of their years of cultivation will go to waste.
But this is a chance at living again, which they will gladly take at this point. Unfortunately for them, Thunder Drake didn't give them the chance.
