The road which is situated up(excuse me lol) looks like a staircase. You really have to improve your city or else the Weeping Willows(5x5;needed at least 9) won't fit in ur city
If you check it right now, you will see I need no whipping willows... I don't want one of those ugly things in my city. Before portal research, I will stall for ancient wonders level up. Right now, I am researching elvenwood main hall, which I will research before taking the stall.
You can work your way without them, proof below:
You can see three planks growing to level 20, hence its researched.
And:
As you can see, mana is not an issue for now, and I had 150K this morning but completed several researches now the tournament is over. I built one weeping willows, and sold it as soon as I cashed the quest.
I produce about 40-60K mana a day, no willows. (I could produce more, but I prefer the gems since it's not my boosted.)
Even though that "staircase" type of road is gone, I fixed all of that today, to fit the three new planks:
Still fixes, but for now, it goes, and all that empty space (it grew a bit, almost another four rows for bigger upcoming for guest races.) And room for main hall growth. (ignore that thing on that area, in 5 hours it will be gone, its a carting library that expires in seven.