Eveofchaos
Every decision has it's consequences. It's not MC fault that what he did made his family shun his mother to suicide. Besides future is always uncertain. Did MC was evil because he focused too much on cultivation? No! Because that second live perhaps would be maybe even worse. At least with power he can choose how MC can live instead of putting his live in hands of others. His mother died? Stuff happens. He did everything he could do in order to preserve her life while gaining power. If he stopped cultivating she was still merely a ***** of 4th young master of Balvan family.
So that azure thingy tried to manipulate Noah? I don't know, but the way I see it, it only managed to make Noah angrier by showing him his mother again and that everything would have been nice if he would have stayed a weakling. He would have never been acknowledged and would have lived a life of servitude. His descendants would have become true heirs? Bull****! Omfg, Heaven and Earth sure made themselves a mortal enemy new :D
Power is not something vain, power allows breaking the limits, allows you to decide, allows you to have options, allows you to go beyond what is established, vanity is to accept being a slave, not to decide, to have emotions, feelings, morals and ethics, you only it becomes a slave, it takes away your freedom, it limits you, I am not interested in living in mediocrity