I Just Wanted a Civil Service Job. How Did I Get Tricked Into a Compound?

After transmigrating to the cultivation world, I spent years cultivating, hoping only to join a major sect and land a secure position. But then my closest relatives betrayed me, selling me into the cultivation world's black-market scam compound, where I became a "disposable asset."

In the depths of despair, I awakened the Cause-and-Effect Retribution System. Outwardly, I went along with the operation and took part in consciousness scams, but in secret, I drained the cultivation of the people who betrayed me as compensation. I also used my past-life experience and the System's cheat to turn the tables on powerful victims during the scams and obtain vast resources.

Lying low in secret and ruthlessly siphoning away power in the face of desperation, the protagonist eventually turns his fortunes around and gets his revenge.