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I'm pretty sure both Xiao Yan from Battle Through the Heavens and Lin Dong from Wu Dong Qian Kun (both series by Tian Can Tu Dou) make use of puppets (Xiao Yan's puppet made use of some Dou Zong's corpse or whatever) to help them fight against stronger enemies.

You could try Monster Haven, (https://m.webnovel.com/book/13114919006798805) he has a power that helps him creating a religion. He can't directly control his 'believers', but as the 'god' of the religion it's the next best thing right.

Lin_Feng_1030

Try age of adepts

Its not exactly puppets or corpses but golems that mc creates

Uh...isn't he asking about cultivation stories, not zombie or monster stories?

Tomoyuki

He asks about cultivation storys where the MC creates/controls corpses/puppets to fight the enemy

Skaz Yeah, and I'm sure My Girlfriend is Zombie and Monster Paradise and maybe Monster Haven are not cultivation stories at all.

Tomoyuki

I dont know about the others but monster paradise is a cultivation story

Tomoyuki

Oh yes LLS was quite a horrible story

Nope in MP you start with the Iron rank than bronze, silver and so on
Later its the imperial realm, virtual god, god and so on.

https://monster-paradise-novel.fandom.com/wiki/Cultivation :)

Lin_Feng_1030 looks like a necromancer to me.