Yes, the most important reason Chen Ping wanted a piece of Thousand Refined steel was to use it to make a set of turbine blades.
Turbine blades were components typically installed in flying soul tools, their most important parts apart from the core arrays.
But flying soul tools were generally Level 4 soul tools!
Was Chen Ping actually going to attempt to make a Level 4 soul tool?
Of course not.
For one thing, Chen Ping could currently only make Level 2 soul tool core arrays, making him a Level 2 Soul Engineer at most.
Even if he could make Level 4 core arrays now, what good would a flying soul tool do him if he could not use it himself?
The most important step in using a flying soul tool was taking off, a process that involved injecting soul power into the soul tool and directing its jets toward the ground.
Only after the body rose high into the air would the folded wings open.
At that point, with the wings drawing lift from the air currents, they only needed to use the soul tool to redirect its downward thrust horizontally to accelerate through the air.
All of this required formidable reserves of soul power within the body. Otherwise, without enough altitude, there would not be enough lift from the air currents, let alone any possibility of flight.
What Chen Ping intended to make was a Level 2 flying soul tool.
Yes, even Shrek's Soul Tool Department could, at best, reduce flying soul tools to Level 3 through various weight reductions, cuts to endurance, and enhancements to the intensity of a Soul Master's soul power bursts, allowing three-ring Soul Elders to barely use them.
Yet Chen Ping actually intended to make a Level 2 flying soul tool. How could