BtB 2006 - Level 7 - Heaven's Gate
Level by BaGi (Barbara Giesecke)
Walkthrough by Yoav, with thanks to Anurag for a point of clarification near the end.
On the highest floor of the Chinese
emperor's palace, very close to heaven, there's the Heavens Gate.
Nine steps are leading the emperor from there to the heaven's altar,
where daily he sacrifices to harmonize Ying and Yang (good and evil).
Unfortunately, the emperor lost the Gate Key while walking through the palace garden. Bad luck for Ying and Yang - with no sacrificing, good and evil will fall into imbalance - a real threat to the whole world.
Lara Croft, who went on vacation in China, is offering her help - and suddenly she gets the mission to find the Fan Key.
There are 2 secrets to find!
After the short flyby, go forward and climb up the left wall near the closed door and throw the switch in the tree trunk. The door opens after a few seconds. Enter the room with four gates and receptacles, turn right into the opening and crawl forward, keep to the right until you can stand up.
Drop down to the bottom and get the Revolver Ammo, then climb up the left ladder onto a ledge above and take care of the snake and pick up the Revolver. Jump/grab the ceiling and monkeyswing across the hole, drop onto other side ledge. Take simple jump above the moving blade and get the Shiny Gem.
Back to the crawlspace (via the ladder and an angled jump) and crawl to the other side of the passage, turn around and climb down into a hole. Head into a small area and kill the snake. Ahead in the shallow water there you'll find the Lasersight between the boulders, and from the left a foliage-covered opening for Revolver Ammo and SECRET # 1. Then climb back into the crawlspace you came from and crawl back to the previous room.
Place the Shiny Gem at the south receptacle, it opens the left gate. Enter inside and notice there's a snake behind the corner. Look for a high crack in the south wall then move back near the exit and a step from the west wall, turn to face this crack. Combine the revolver with lasersight and shoot the ball in the crack. The next two gates outside are open. Head into the room and kill the thugs and look to your left for two shooting ranges with four balls behind the grate and closed door at the right side.
Proceed forward down the stairs and jump into a pool, notice for two underwater gates, then get out of the pool. Behind each flowerpot there's a switch and at the middle a closed door, throw the right one to open an underwater gate in the pool. Go behind the left flowerpot and save the game, throw the timed switch, it lowers the grate at the shooting range. Quickly turn around and jump into the pool and get out, run faster over there and shoot on the four balls, this should open the door to your right side.
Follow the short passage and stand in a front of the large hole. Don't cross the hole by jumping onto the ledges ahead! Just turn around, drop/grab the edge hole and drop down to the bottom for a secret place. Pick up a medipack in the SE corner and proceed around the hill, pick up the flares, then climb up the wall ladder nearby. Head around the column, kill the thug and come to a small jungle area. From the ledge you are standing on, jump into the water and swim south into a small alcove, get the hard-to-see Chinese Fan from the right side, when a screenie will show you the door between the flowerpots is open now. Turn around and swim north, turn east into a triangular underwater passage for the Crowbar. Then swim out the passage straight between the trees for flares and get out of the water.
Follow the ledge north and see the opening in the east wall near the NE corner, jump into it and kill the snake in the passage while you come to the place with four movable objects. Place each movable object onto its right tile, start with the red object cube dragon, then the blue, the green and the black. The gate is open now so jump into the alcove and use the crowbar and get the two Dragon Stones. Go back through the jungle and come to the large hole; this time pass to other side by using the ledges. Jump onto the first ledge and at the right moment when the spike trap in the middle ledge allows you to, jump onto it do it and quickly jump forward onto the next ledge and follow back to the west pool where you've been before.
Jump into the pool, dive and swim into the underwater gate you already opened. Swim along the underwater passage through the two star gates and get out of the water into a room. Head toward the opening and drop into a pool; a short swimming around tells you there's nothing except a closed gate. Climb back into the room and stand facing toward the faraway swinging chains, but look closer for a crack in the wall in front of you. Run and jump, grab the crack and shimmy right around the wall, grab the climbable wall and keep further toward the ladder.
Backflip and grab the next ladder behind you, climb up and avoid the chains, turn left and climb up the ladder to small courtyard. Kill the snake and notice he needs to give you the Shiny Gem. Then go east to the block with the bell and throw the switch on its side, get the screenie that shows you the underwater gate is open now. Back to the pool below and swim through the opening gate, avoid the snake and follow along the passage back to the pool where you've been before and get out of the water on the west side.
Go through the door between the flowerpots, see the closed gate in the left passage. Head toward the receptacles and place dragon stone #1 you already have, to open that gate. Go down stairs and turn right into a dead-end passage, climb to your right side for a medipack. Then climb to left side, jump above the moving blade and get the Shiny Gem. Back through the passage and follow down south to a cave, jump into the water then first turn around and swim down to pick-up some revolver ammo in a recess. Turn around again to face the pool and swim right, climb onto the ledge. In front of you a crack, take simple jump forward, grab it and shimmy left around the cave until you can pull up into the opening and crawl to the next room.
Ahead is a closed door and from your left another closed gate and receptacle for the dragon stone #2. Place it to open the gate and climb up the ladder into a room above. From both sides of the room you can place the shiny gems at their receptacles and see how the blocks move into the wall and clear out a space. There're also two movable objects in each side corner of the room, so now you'll be able to push/pull them along the floor onto the tile at the opposite side of the room.
Back to the room below, a thug will be waiting for you, kill him and pass the open east door, enter the next room. Place the Chinese Fan, it will open the double doors, while you run up the stairs two ghosts will show up and before you reach the top of the stairs you'll get to the level's end.