I think that it's a Korean manhwa. There are witches in this world. Mc meets a wood witch and begins to travel with her. He confronts iron witches that are trying to conquer the world. It seems that the world is cyclical and now it's iron's time and wood witches are in danger of disappearing. The mc makes wood sculptures and the wood witch can animate them.
Is the one where the MC had to run away from home because his parents wanted to make him marry his sister? He makes wooden totems in this one.
No, that's quite recent. The one I'm saying is at least 6-8 years old. There is an iron witches' fortress next to his town and he ran away because he gets into problems with them after meeting the wood witch.
maybe it's this one? https://mangadex.org/title/9457/ochitekita-ryuuou-to-horobiyuku-majo-no-kuni MC is a samurai transported to another world where witches are condemned Can't find any Korean series that involves wood witches in Mangadex i guess it's not there... Welp good luck to anyone I'm out of ideas.