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Temple of Xian ...continued

The Dragon Seal of Approval
Walk to the edge of the ledge. Before you, a green ladder descends into the blackness, the relentless clacking of swinging death blades rising up. That's right, you're going down - but not via the ladder. As you face the ladder, put your right shoulder against the right wall. Turn around, drop and grab. Release from this point and you shouldn't take any blade damage.

Once safely at the bottom, use another flare to study the shiny pair of rolling wheels of death. You're headed for safety in the passage in the far-left corner. What can we say? Timing is everything.

Upon entering the area above the main floor of the temple, turn left and locate the button in the middle of the wall. Push it, flip around, and run/jump down the middle of the room en route to the area beyond the large, temporarily open doors at the other end.

Dodging the swinging spike bags you find beyond the doors should be rather easy for you at this point. When you get to the safe platform, push the right button; then sidejump to the left and push that button. Immediately dash into the passageway and don't stop running until you reach the very end of the pier - where you must make a death-defying leap to The Dragon Seal platform. Welcome to our third-most favorite room in the entire game (our two most-favorites are yet to come).

	Note Actually, you don't have to outrun the rolling metal ball o' death and make an action hero jump to The Dragon Seal. Instead, the moment you're on the pier, turn, hop back and grab the edge of the pier. The ball will harmlessly rumble past. You can now take your time getting to The Dragon Seal ledge. Sometimes it's nice when the pressure's off.

Temple of Xian, continued...