While communicating with the fire dragon, Zheng Yichen understood what it meant by "learning too late." This "too late" referred to humans, as learning magic is not like learning martial arts in wuxia novels, where a younger physical age offers an advantage.
Learning magic doesn't consider physical age, but it does consider soul age! Especially for those with average talent, learning magic from a young age is equivalent to adjusting the state of their own soul, enhancing the affinity between the soul and Elements power, and adaptability to magic, and so on.
Although true geniuses would obtain much greater improvements, hard work could compensate for innate deficiencies to some extent. As a person grows up, the soul becomes completely fixed, making it not so easy to establish such a foundation in this way later on.
