In the same year, however, the Aki-Takeda clan and Tomoda clan on the Amago side lost to the Ouchi clan, and in 1525, Motonari MORI switched sides to the Ouchi clan by ruining a favorable relationship with the Amago clan, after an internal conflict with his younger brother, Mototsuna AIO.
しかし、同年には尼子方であった安芸武田氏・友田氏が大内氏に敗北し、翌大永5年（1525年）には元就は弟の相合元綱との内紛の後、尼子との関係を解消して大内氏に所属を変えた。