No major events stirred the nations. In the blink of an eye, the New Year had passed, and spring arrived.
Demiplane
The portal opened without a sound. Romon walked straight inside and looked around.
The demiplane was now nothing like the snow-and-ice world of old. Sunlight covered the ground.
It was much like the Shennong Horn of old, except there was no sun overhead. The sky connected to positive energy and cast down sunlight in balanced measure. Romon sensed it and discovered that the demiplane had also grown to a certain extent.
It covered roughly a thousand mu, comparable to a sprawling university campus in the suburbs.
Sunlight shone down, while water formed a lake. Looking closely, he saw fish and crabs thriving freely in the lake. Farther away, cultivated fields and orchards swayed in the breeze.
Romon took a stroll through the nearby woods. Aside from the trees, strings of tiny flowers carpeted the ground. It truly had become a meadow blooming with flowers.
Under the effects of Divinity and time, the former snow-and-ice demiplane had begun to form a biological chain, and the breath of a forest now seeped through it.
It could never level up like the Shennong Horn, though it could still grow very slowly.
But of course, Romon had not come here for sightseeing.
He closed his eyes and sank into the Shennong Horn Space.
A translucent information panel appeared automatically: "The space has met the advancement requirements for the Twenty-Fourth Level. Advance?"
Romon said, "Advance!"
The moment the words fell, green light blazed forth, and the space expanded once more.
The original land had covered one hundred million mu, equivalent to sixty-six thousand square kilometers. With this advancement, it expanded to two hundred and fifty million mu, an area equivalent to one hundred sixty-six