User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 665 - The Princess Dissection/@comment-5303512-20160310225005/@comment-3423279-20160311081305

Welp, maybe Askin was confident that he could just move away from Kisuke, as the Sternritter could just jump in the air high enough that Kisuke couldn't get to him with the whole reishi is too dense for Shinigami to make footsteps.

Also, how do we know that he wasn't using Blut? maybe Grimmjow's Resurrection augmented hollow reiatsu just tore through it, Hollows are basically a spirit disease to Quincy after all.