Therefore, once he reached level thirty and became a god, his leveling speed wouldn't stagnate but would instead burst forward with the unlocking of the experience pool!
This was also why the number of believers was so crucial for deities.
After the ten-star mark, the demands for both experience and divinity would become astronomical, especially for divinity. Crafting Divine Artifacts, creating Divine Arts, continuing to increase the star level, and so on—all required a vast amount of divinity.
And a god without believers would have empty experience and divinity pools, only able to collect at a painstakingly slow rate on their own. It could take thousands, even tens of thousands of years to ascend just one star—how could their growth speed possibly compare to those gods with believers everywhere?
To develop believers, one must first craft Statues of Gods.