At the beginning of the novel, the MC is in a cave cultivating. He is close to dying but at the last moment breaks through to become one of 10 gods. Only 10 Gods can exist at one time and he became the 10th with his cultivation being chaos. I remember one scene where he notices several sects fighting on a nearby mountain for a sword, I think. He interferes and takes it for himself. There was a girl there who was a saintess or something as well.
The beginning is somewhat annoying but novel get better Spoiler once he stop manipulating fate to run into hot babes.