Zhang Chen didn't mind collaborating with the Queen Mother of the West, as her ability to preserve strength was also a kind of assurance for him.
Just like this time when transplanting the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and refining the Eighteenth Heaven, without the help of the Queen Mother of the West, it would have been impossible for Zhang Chen with his yet-to-be-proven Dao Fruit strength.
"I appreciate your kindness, but your Little Thousand World has just been established and still needs consolidation. I mustn't extract Innate Qi from it, lest it delay its evolution into a Middle Thousand World. Only then can I enter it for slumber, thus thoroughly resolving my hidden dangers. I can still afford to wait, so you needn't worry about me," said the Queen Mother of the West.
