Boom!
Max Elephant crashed heavily onto Tiger Funeral, knocking Piercing Ox to the ground as well.
But Qiao Lun, still in midair, did not let his guard down. As he fell, he prepared to pull up his shadow to defend himself at any moment.
He had simply overestimated Tiger Funeral a little. Max Elephant's crushing weight had already knocked Tiger Funeral unconscious.
The taming had been completed while Tiger Funeral was unconscious.
In the end, Tiger Funeral never managed to use its sealing ability. After all, Qiao Lun had come prepared, and his relentless chain of attacks had given Tiger Funeral no chance to catch its breath. This outcome was only to be expected.
But looking at the result of the battle, Qiao Lun became even more certain that he could not tame Mahoraga in his current state.
Or, more precisely, taming Mahoraga with just his nine animal friends was almost impossible.
His animal friends mostly dealt physical blows. Whether it was Piercing Ox's charge or Tiger Funeral's tearing attacks, Mahoraga could quickly adapt to them.
Even Max Elephant, who had knocked Tiger Funeral unconscious, could not kill Mahoraga in one blow. Mahoraga would only adapt to the shikigami's attacks and then ignore all their attacks outright.
However, there was still one avenue Qiao Lun had yet to try.
That was fusing the shikigami.
In the manga, the core of the Agito Sukuna had fused was Divine Dog: Totality, but according to Satoru Gojo's observations, Agito had also inherited the abilities of Great Serpent, Round Deer, and Tiger Funeral.
Even so, Agito was weaker than Sukuna and Mahoraga.
Satoru Gojo had confirmed that as well.
Still, this gave Qiao Lun a direction. If he could fuse more shikigami, or even combine the abilities of all nine into a single chimera,