User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 565 (Mangapanda is run by lazy barnacles)/@comment-29449108-20140122165523/@comment-2220112-20140122221321

He already had those skills, and passed them on to his troops. It says that they just come back to him. His gift is a curse and by passing his abilities to Uryu, he has made it so that if Uryu wants to continue to live he must continue to wage wars just like him. Did you notice as a child he looked just like Zangetsu in Bankai? So what power did he pass to Ichigo?