The part with the asauchi bowing to ichigo was cool, but could have used some explanation as to why they except him all of a sudden. The whole process of ichigo and renji's training in that room was left very vague.....whatever, on to the next palace.
I hope the quincies will still be able to put up a good fight in the up coming battle. I really don't want all this build up to lead to a string of one sided battles....