After being at a stalemate for a while, the two of them had no choice but to bury the hatchet amidst their wariness for each other. Huang Shan was conferred the title of Prince Wu and took over a region, establishing the feeling of a country within a country.
However, this was clearly not something that Zhao Hao was willing to see. With the reinforcement from the Lives' Wisdom Seal, Zhao Hao spent a tremendous amount of time training in seclusion. He kept on making use of the wisdom from all lives in the world to help him derive Fang Xingjian's martial art legacies and continued attaining breakthroughs in his cultivation.
Huang Shan was naturally unwilling to be under the rule of a lowborn person from the lower realm. He secretly got into contact with Tang Xian, wanting the two of them to join forces to kill Zhao Hao and split the world evenly between themselves.
