If Pangu could attempt to open Primordial Chaos, the other Limitless Ones naturally could too.
Success was certainly impossible, but nothing stopped them from trying.
What was more, all ten Limitless Ones had ties to one another, and all had appeared at the "scene of the crime." Some had even secretly helped Pangu.
In the eyes of the Great Dao and Chaos, there was no need to spell out what that made the other nine Limitless Ones...
Every last one of them was a potential "criminal"!
Anyone, any existence, faced with a group of potential "criminals" who had both motive and means would keep an eye on them. That was only reasonable.
So the emergence of certain restrictions was only natural.
If the Limitless Ones and Chaos Ones had not chosen to become the External Tribulation at the last moment and pretend to attack Pangu, but had instead stood with him against the Great Dao and Chaos...
Then they would now face far more than a few restrictions.
It was precisely because they had "earned merit while under suspicion" that they had secured such "lenient treatment."
As for why those below Limitless had not been restricted...
Well, weakness had its advantages too...
Chaos Ones existed within the Dao and within Chaos. In the judgment of the Great Dao and Chaos, they could never open Primordial Chaos, replace Chaos, or supplant the Great Dao.
Since they could not cross that line, they were naturally left unrestricted and free.
It was not easy for the Great Dao and Chaos to "wake up," but once they did, they could not "fall asleep" again anytime soon.
Thus, the period from Pangu's attempt to open Primordial Chaos until now had been an "Active Period" for the Great Dao and Chaos.
The previous "Active Period" had