User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/413: Deicide 15/@comment-1268838-20100724062531

Seeing as how the fight between Ichigo and his "power" has apparently been going on for several hours in Dangai-time, the next chapter may very well be the end of the Deicide series. It had never hit me that Deicide could be a reference to the previous chapter "Tug Your God Out"; a lot of people seemed to think that it implied that Aizen or the Reiou was going to be killed. Again, this chapter was necessary to show real time passing in Karakura Town - if our point of view took place in the Dangai, then many things could happen in the Town without our knowledge, since.

As for Noyas said, its partly true at least. Looking at the scene where he slashed at the ground, Orihime was sent flying several feet, and (in the anime at least) skidded off her head. He didn't literally "smash" her per se, but he did hurt her. Or at least it looked like it hurt.